Stories tagged with Hewlett-Packard
Carly Fiorina: possible candidate for GOP veep
By A. James Memmott | April 29, 2008 at 11:12am | 0 
She managed a payroll; she’s used to politics - the corporate variety at least - and at 53, she’s relatively young. Perhaps it’s no surprise then that Carleton “Carly” Fiorina, the former head of the Hewlett-Packard Co., is being mentioned as a possible vice presidential running mate for Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican candidate.
Gore & Hyatt taking media company public
By Laurie Bennett | January 28, 2008 at 2:40pm | 0
The media company co-founded by Al Gore and Joel Hyatt five years ago plans to go public.
Current Media, which operates a TV network and a web site aimed at young audiences, notified the SEC of its intentions today.
The stuff that Tom Perkins’ dreams are made of
By Ali Jones | December 16, 2007 at 9:46am | 2
It can be hard to measure the size of someone’s ego. But not that of venture capitalist Tom Perkins.
His ego measures precisely 289.1 feet long and is named the Maltese Falcon, a new class of super yacht.
Perkins co-founded in 1972 what is now Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, one of the most successful VC firms in the world. At one point, Perkins was a director of 14 portfolio companies, three of which he chaired and which were traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
