Meg Whitman

Some Lesser Known Facts About Meg Whitman

• Does Meg Whitman smoke?: No

• Does Meg Whitman drink alcohol?: No

• Her birthplace, Long Island, New York in Oyster Bay, was one of the inspirational settings for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Great Gatsby.

• Both of her parents, Hendricks Hallett Whitman, Jr. and Margaret Cushing Whitman, served in World War II.

• When Meg Whitman was born, she had a birth defect called dysplasia.

• She was a good athlete in her child hood and liked many sports like swimming, tennis and skating.

• Whitman wanted to go in the field of medicines and dreamed of becoming  a doctor.

• She introduced UK’s children’s television show “Teletubbies” into the United States.

• She joined eBay in 1988 when it had only 30 employees with 4 million USD revenue and she raised the revenue of eBay to 8 billion USD with 15000 employees before she left in 2008.

• Meg Whitman donated 30 million USD to Princeton in 2002 and the Whitman College Residence is named after her.

• While running for California Governor, she spent more of her own money (144 million USD) and became the most self-funded political candidate in the history of US politics.

• In 2015 Fortune’s list, Meg Whitman was ranked 7 as the highest paid women in the world.