Katie Prescott

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

Probably not, actually, unless Hewlett Packard really, really decided to go totally nuclear after his widow and some of her assets.

I think his reputation would still be really trashed.

And I think that his reputation was as important to him as his bank balance.

So I think you're right in terms that yes, elites fail into a safety net.

And so was he ever going to be destitute in the way that would happen to some people?

No.

But would all of the doors that he used to love being open for him in the government here, you know, he was on the board of the BBC, he had all these prestigious jobs, would those shut?

Yes.

And had already started to do that before he went out to the States for his criminal trial.

Hubris.

I mean, it's an ancient one, but it feels like that just threads through the story from, I mean, it's terrible to say, the fact that his boat had one of the tallest masts in the world was something he was very proud of.

And that was, in the end...

Yeah.

And I think there's another one, which is to your point about kindness and about being nice to people on the way up, because you never know when you might need them on the way down.

No, I don't.

I think he was angry a lot of the time, actually.

And then I think the last 10 years of his life, my God, fighting those legal battles in the way that he did.

And the energy and mental toll, not to mention the financial toll that that took, I think was horrendous.

Actually, it's kind of astonishing that he managed to found so many companies during that time.

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