Chapter 52 foreword

One day in March 2002, a luxurious motorcade arrived at the headquarters of Compaq, the second largest microcomputer manufacturer in the world at that time.Kelly Fiorina, the high-profile female CEO of Hewlett-Packard, walked into Compaq's headquarters like a queen, surrounded by a group of officials, big and small, and accepted her in a Opposition to the acquisition of Compaq.This day was the most glorious day in Fiorina's life.According to Compaq’s employees, Fiorina’s attitude at that time was haughty and invincible, as if she was surrendered by a winner. After just three years, Fiorina sadly left HP.Her series of wrong decisions and mediocre management skills pushed HP, the first superstar in Silicon Valley history, to the brink.Fortunately, a year later, under the leadership of the new CEO Mark Hurd, HP regained the top spot of the world's microcomputer manufacturer from Dell (DELL).However, the nature of Hewlett-Packard has changed from a high-tech company to a consumer electronics company focusing on home appliances.

Although HP has never led a wave of technological revolution, as the earliest company in Silicon Valley, HP has witnessed the whole process of the development of Silicon Valley, from scratch, from hardware to software, the history of HP is Silicon Valley to some extent A microcosm of history.