I spent last week on Mark Hurd’s firing, er involuntary resignation, and watched the backstory develop, and it isn’t pretty. Hurd was likely the third-hardest guy to fire in Silicon Valley behind Steve Jobs and Larry Ellison — and yet, at least initially, he seemed to be fired as a result of a false accusation of sexual harassment leading to a global WTF moment. Ellison, the next guy up on that invulnerability list, wrote a flaming letter to The New York Times and inadvertently seemed to remind folks that with Hurd gone, both he and Steve Jobs could be vulnerable.
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Hurd Follows Fiorina and Learns Karma Is a Bitch
Posted by: Rob Enderle August 16, 2010 05:00 AMI spent last week on Mark Hurd’s firing, er involuntary resignation, and watched the backstory develop, and it isn’t pretty. Hurd was likely the third-hardest guy to fire in Silicon Valley behind Steve Jobs and Larry Ellison — and yet, at least initially, he seemed to be fired as a result of a false accusation of sexual harassment leading to a global WTF moment. Ellison, the next guy up on that invulnerability list, wrote a flaming letter to The New York Times and inadvertently seemed to remind folks that with Hurd gone, both he and Steve Jobs could be vulnerable.