Forbes

MEG WHITMAN

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$3.7

BILLION  SELF-MADE SCORE: ^ SOURCE: EBAY AGE: 63 RESIDENCE: LOS ANGELES PHILANTHRO­PY SCORE: Whitman led Silicon Valley giant eBay, where she made most of her fortune, and Hewlett Packard. Now, she’s gone Hollywood—to Quibi, a short-form mobile subscripti­on service that mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg recruited her to run. Together they’ve raised $1 billion in investment, sold $100 million in upfront ad revenue and attracted filmmakers like Sam Raimi and Guillermo del Toro, who have agreed to make videos for the new service. In tenth grade she was a snack bar cook at a dude ranch in Wyoming.

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