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first i must thank you meg whitman for taking up to the position of being ambassador.sador for a long time, i say with a bit of bravado as a proud californian, and your work and your groundbreaking■o in technology is extraordinary. this is just the perfect moment that you would step upr that. thank you. thank you. digital inclusion was at the heart of the idea for this initiative that is focused on the continent and i want to thank a few people that i know are here. brad smith is here. michael knew back is here. it was companies like microsoft, mastercard, foundations, melinda french gates was one of the earliest to contribute as much as $10 million for the women, the digital inclusion focused on women, the ford foundation. essentially, this is how it all happened. the simplified version. i got on the phone and called a bunch of people. i called to say, i know that you have some interest based on the work you have done before. we collaborate? in a focused way that develops some energy around a public/private partnership? the foundation f the work being digital inclusio

and then meg whitman, that was the ceo at the time, after a few days, she called me at home and said, need to talk to you. i went to her home and she said, i know you don't want to do that. this is the opportunity of your career. you're going to learn things. you should be taking this road. and when she calls you to her home on the weekend, you know there is only one answer. [laughter] which was, yes, i will do it. i have to say, i learned a lot. david: so what was the business theory behind why splitting up hewlett-packard, a very successful company, into two separate companies, why was that going to be such a great idea? enrique: the main theory, which in our case has proven to be true, was focus. hp was a big company selling from printers to servers to data centers, all sorts of technology products. the theory the board had was that focus was very important. each market was moving in a different direction. we were competing with different companies. so being focused, being able to invest in our segments was a critical thing, and in our case that has proven to be true. david: when t

and then meg whitman, that was the ceo at the time, after a few days, she called me at home and said, i need to talk to you. i went to her home and she said, i know you don't want to do that. this is the opportunity of your career. you're going to learn things. you should be taking this road. and when she calls you to her home on the weekend, you know there is only one answer. [laughter] which was, yes, i will do it. i have to say, i learned a lot. david: so what was the business theory behind why splitting up hewlett-packard, a very successful company, into two separate companies, why was that going to be such a great idea? enrique: the main theory, which in our case has proven to be true, was focus. hp was a big company selling from printers to servers to data centers, all sorts of technology products. the theory the board had was that focus was very important. each market was moving in a different direction. we were competing with different companies. so being focused, being able to invest in our segments was a critical thing, and in our case that has proven to be true. david: when

and then meg whitman, that was the ceo at the time, after a few days, she called me at home and said, i need to talk to you. i went to her home and she said, i know you don't want to do that. this is the opportunity of your career. you're going to learn things. you should be taking this road. and when the ceo calls you to her home on the weekend, you know there is only one answer. [laughter] which was, yes, i will do it. i have to say, i learned a lot. david: so what was the business theory behind why splitting up hewlett-packard, a very successful company, into two separate companies, why was that going to be such a great idea? enrique: the main theory, which in our case has proven to be true, was focus. hp was a big company selling from printers to servers to data centers, all sorts of technology products. the theory the board had was that focus was very important. each market was moving in a different direction. we were competing with different companies. so being focused, being able to invest in our segments was a critical thing, and in our case that has proven to be true. david:

and then meg whitman, that was the ceo at the time, after a few is days, she called me at home in and said, i need to talk to you. i went to her home and she said, i know you don't want to do that. this is the opportunity of your career. you're going to learn things. you should be taking this road. and when she calls you to her home on the weekend, you know there is only one answer. [laughter] which was, yes, i will do it. i have to say, i learned a lot. david: so what was the business theory behind why splitting up hewlett-packard, a very successful company, into two separate companies, why was that going to be such a great idea? enrique: the main theory, which in our case has proven to be true, was focus. hp was a big company selling from printers to servers to data centers, all sorts of technology products. the theory the board had was that focus was very important. each market was moving in a different direction. we were competing with different companies. so being focused, being able to invest in our segments was a critical thing, and in our case that has proven to be true. his d

meg whitman, john chambers at cisco, and everything else. these are just people who are sort of trying to get in on the game and they realize how easy it is. there's another group of people like reid hoffman, mark cuban, ron conway, who are very supportive of biden and have been previous things. shamatha was a big supporter of of obama and hillary clinton. and so i think it was with hillary clinton two, but they just shift. they just want influence. this is what's in handwaving and then they play the victim there was the richest people in the world must be nice for 30 million, not to be a lot of things. i want to tell our viewers. and i want you to talk about some of it's not i know it's i know it's just hard to wrap your mind around sometimes you and i texting earlier about the fact that these tech billionaires i'd whitman aside and she's maybe from a few years ago. but they're spending their money the way you just described compare that to melinda gates, mackenzie bezos well, these guys just want to be influencers and hand wave and tell us

meg whitman, you talk about three extraordinary womeand whar this week.you heard, as you are and google and others are, we need to recognize that we, especially in the tech sector, are an industry where women are underrepresented. you see this in the united states and in kenya. if you look at the early numbers for adoption, unfortunately, it is continuing, this divide, yet this is the time to close it. and i think that, too, is calling for new initiatives of the source that are being launched here this week but i think can bring us all together on a sustained basis. kendra: think that is wonderful, and as you note, if there is no access, then there is no ability to scale, and as those gaps continue to wi i set us back. thank you for that and for the opportunity to call on a fourth extraordinary woman this morning, cheryl mills, on our panel. i'm struck by, in this conversation, that we are talking scaling opportunity, partnerships in the digital, but how much agriculture has come up in this conversation. i think that speaks t digital . it is beyond the te

meg whitman, you talk about three extraordinary women. and what it has brought together this week. heard, are and google and others are, we need to recognize that we, especially in the tech sector, are an industry where women arez underrepresented. you see this in the united states and in kenya. if you look at the early numbers for ai adoion, unfortunately, it is continuing, this divide, yethi and i think that, too, is calling for new initiatives of the source that are being launched here this week but i think can bring us all together on a sustained basis. kendra: i think that is wonderful, and as you note, if there is no access, then there is no ability to scale, and as those gaps continue to widen, it only creates more inequality and set us back. thank you for that and for the opportunity to call on a fourth aordinary woman this morning, cheryl mills, on our panel. i'm struck by, in this conversation, that we are talking about scaling opportunity, partnerships in the digital, but how much agriculture has come up in this conversation. i think that speaks to the impact that the di

everybody give a hand to ambassador whitman.se] we were together in kenya in awe meg determination commitment expertise, it is ki h ruto, biden, the investor, and i were together wednes with a group of kenyan and u.s. business leaders talk can do together. and of course, last night we had you could just feel it in the room -- the excitement in the roum we have, and where we will go from here.the key at the and now is how momentum of this historic visit to do what is next? we cannot go home, in my case which street, in your case, back to kenya, to, we cannot just go home, feel excited for the weekend, and move on. we can't do it. president ruto said, in the u.s.-kenyan economic we have to go from ideas to and opportunities to investment. that is whatry one of us has to think. i'i do to take the excitement, the buz momentum# it into an investment. by the way, has been the announcements we have made from google, huge announcement infrastructure, digital upscaling of millions of kenyans. microsoft, the new dataen upscaling masterca