Katie Prescott

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250 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 11 Jun

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Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci · The Rise and Fall of a Tech Titan - Katie Prescott · 11 Jun 2026 podcast

So Meg Whitman joined our story when you said she was the boss of eBay.

And then she was on the board of Hewlett-Packard.

Hewlett-Packard's former boss, a guy called Leo Potica, a German guy, bought autonomy and then was basically instantly fired, right, before the deal could go through.

So Meg Whitman was left with this... She inherits this catastrophe, right?

She had been on the board when it went through.

But yes, that and you could say a poison chalice as well.

And she liked things done by the book.

As I understand it, but you know her, so I'm interested to hear your views on that.

She was running an enormous business, 300,000 people.

It was described as a bit like the civil service, a very old school bastion of Silicon Valley.

And she suddenly gets this young, slightly scrappy woman.

British company which has grown by acquisition essentially so it's a bit of a hotch potch of different businesses run by this guy who's never had a boss before and suddenly she's his boss and I'd also be interested in your views on this I think there's a bit of a US UK culture clash going on certainly a startup more established culture clash too.

And Meg and Mike hated each other.

And she really didn't take kindly to his slightly scrappy, rude attitude.

I don't think she liked some of the things that they discovered when they bought Autonomy.

And in return, Mike Lynch found HP really difficult to deal with.

He always prided himself on the fact that Autonomy was run like a startup, that he was an independent company.

sort of guy and that they could move very quickly and suddenly he's in this enormous giant company where well he said afterwards um it was like working for hp was like being waterboarded

I think that's probably a bit BBC, is it?

I don't think that's a very good trait.

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