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Agreed. It explains Carly Fiorina as well. CF has sufficient money. She will never have the power+prestige she enjoyed as HP CEO.

I don't think CF, MM or the Ponytail, Jonathan Schwartz will work again.

For $0.5B you can buy some reputation :-)

Concretely, though, what consequence does this have in that respect? Is there a marginal party she's not going to get invited to because of the loss of rep from this breach? Is there an introduction she's not going to get?

Is there someone who matters to her who will deprive her personally (i.e. not Yahoo) of something due to having remembered this event?