From Bankruptcy To Billions: The Rebirth Of HP

[@myhandlewastakenandIgaveup]

Never buy an hp printer. Ever. For any reason

[@LogicallyAnswered]

Hahaha

[@Sergio_Loureiro]

I was firmware screwed also. I inserted an non HP ink cartridge and the printer stopped working a while after.

[@2beJT]

Oh Brother!

[@zedaggers5158]

Destroyed my printer with a hammer because i needed to install working cartridges to be allowed to scan…

[@agoodmansaid]

Agreed! The laptops tend to have motherboards dying unexpectedly as well

[@Martial-Mat]

They've done it by ripping people off on printers. They used to be a reputable brand. Now they're dead to me.

[@LogicallyAnswered]

😢

[@k.chriscaldwell4141]

You are wise.

[@stevenperry9762]

Fiorina later ran for Governor of California. Her campaign was a dumpster fire, too. She's a joke.

[@Escape2Paradox]

I work in business IT support and HP products are the bane of my existence. Laptops, printers, even servers by them ALWAYS have problems.

[@seanh1988]

Lies bruh. Dell is the trash of the IT world, overheating junk laptops in the commerical space.

[@NondumisoNyembezi]

Which do you prefer?

[@NondumisoNyembezi]

​@@seanh1988Which do YOU prefer?

[@Escape2Paradox]

​@@NondumisoNyembezi Lenovo and Dell (business-class, NOT consumer-class, they are crap) computers (both desktop and laptop) seem to be the most reliable in my experience. I have also had HP built servers have bugs that I haven't encountered with Dell or custom builds. As for printers: everything sucks. You just roll the dice and pick one and hope it lasts you a couple years.

[@NondumisoNyembezi]

@Escape2Paradox Thank you, most helpful

[@thebosscrystal]

HP stands for Hinge Problem ™️

[@LogicallyAnswered]

Hahaha facts, I’ve experienced that too

[@MandzisiDlamini]

I have also been a victim of their hinge problems.

[@akin242002]

@@thebosscrystal Avoid personal lines as much as possible. They live up to the "Hing Problem" stereotype far more than the business lines.

[@StaceyAyodele]

That's why I avoid their laptops. Their desktops are TANKS tho. I have an HP Pavillion desktop as my main system now. My first computer in 2004 was an HP Pavillion a320n. Sadly during the 2000s computers were outpacing each other rapidly and it was replaced in 2010 with an iMac. Now though...back to my roots. Love that HP Desktop

[@jimad]

Mark Hurd nearly destroyed HP from within by hiring Randy Mott as CIO. Mott's tenure was HP's worst nightmare. Mott made Carly look like a saint.

[@daverei1211]

I joined HP from DEC via the Compaq acquisition and it felt like coming home, I’ve survived Carley, Mark, Theo, and Meg, and am now part of HPE with Antonio. Antonio came through the ranks and is one of the best CEO’s I’ve experienced over a 38 year career. He gets the employees, the customers , and has a great vision for the future of the company. Although I wasn’t there for the early Carly days, I believe you’ve summed it up as I heard it from my colleagues at the time. Great presentation - please do more on other companies as I don’t think HP was alone.

[@arigatoSev7en]

Thank you for the lovely insight!

[@jmalk29]

Wow you have seen (and survived) a lot of history. We were VAX shop, and due to business conditions, we rode that equipment, and Pathworks, into 2003. HP sent an engineering team in to help us transition to Intel/MS Server, along with a pile of pc's. They gave us some very deep discounts, and did an ok job of stuffing application holes. I only parted ways with HP when they locked down their out of warranty support (couldn't get firmware updates for example). Thought that was a poor choice on their part.

[@Noodlze]

I will never forgive them for their treatment of Palm. Who admittedly had problems, but felt like HP was doing everything it could to destroy them.

[@summerrr1]

Palm was already dying when HP bought them.

[@SurfCatten]

Great video but need to correct some points. HP was not bloated. It's simply wasn't a bootstrapped Silicon Valley startup. The main thing that killed HP was focusing on low margin PC and Printer sales and splitting off all of their other divisions which historically kept the company afloat in hard times. I worked for HP in the 1980s and 1990s leaving just before Carly Fiorina came in and bankrupted the company. It was devastating to watch. Not sure why you say that the switch to focus on personal computers was under Mark Hurd. By the time he inherited the company consumer PCs and printers were the only product lines left. And this was not the right choice in my opinion. Yes they laid off most of the company and split off most of their product lines to turn themselves into a simple low margin PC seller. You could call that a success financially but for the technologies and the employees and the consumers of the products that HP was known for it was a colossal failure. And the separation into separate companies happened just before Carly took over not afterwards. Agilent technologies was the company that they spun off. Hewlett-Packard was an early and prolific powerhouse of research and development. We'll never know how many years of technological development was lost due to the stupidity and greed of the board of directors.

[@misaonthefly]

Good

[@toobigtofit3584]

As an electrical engineer, I still use a decent amount of HP test equipment around the lab, though there's a good mix of Agilent and Keysight now that the name has faded away. I'm sure they'll find a way to change the name again in a few more years.

[@LogicallyAnswered]

Appreciate the extra insights Surf!

[@SurfCatten]

@@LogicallyAnswered Appreciate your videos!

[@funnyhats1839]

Quick thing about Lucent she was one of the people who headed up the practices that would lead to the downfall of Lucent aka Bell Labs with basically fake revenue reporting. The engineers at Lucent would also curse her name after she left. One of the managers that destroyed one of the most technologically advanced companies in the world.

[@LogicallyAnswered]

Oof

[@DeusLegendXBLN]

Former employee here, I remember if someone mentioned Carly's name, it was considered taboo! Also, I think you should have included the failed acquisitions of Autonomy and Palm and also the Meg Whitman years and more of the spinoff of HPE.

[@LogicallyAnswered]

Good points that should’ve been there

[@DeusLegendCollects]

@@LogicallyAnswered Great video though. I enjoyed it 😎

[@denizyilmaz5381]

What about Leo Apotheker? Wasn’t that a complete fiasco on its own?

[@DeusLegendXBLN]

@@denizyilmaz5381 yes lol

[@TimEssDub]

@@denizyilmaz5381 His number one failure was entering the mobile market as a new player without courting an ecosystem.

[@POLARTTYRTM]

Great soundtrack in this video. Excellent quality as always.

[@LogicallyAnswered]

Thank you!

[@peterhuh]

@@LogicallyAnswered Wow. Do you have the source of the soundtrack during "A New Leader"?

[@marcmckenzie5110]

Most of my career was at HP. It was an outstanding company until a few years before Carly; we definitely needed new leadership, but not her. I worked quite a bit directly with both Carly, and Hurd. They were both impressive with some outstanding talent, but both were half the package. She was a narcissist, and he was a mean spirited asshole. I never saw this “empathy” from Hurd - ever. Together they annihilated really three great companies: HP, Compaq, and Digital (which hadn’t been digested by Compaq when they merged with HP). They totally botched the mergers, and destroyed innovation. I know. I was very close to all of this.

[@robleyanne]

HP laptops are okay, but I will never buy another printer while they have this stupid subscription thing. Ridiculous!!!

[@waikikinz]

As a student in an engineering college in France, our uni signed an agreement with HP. We could get HP PCs with a better pricing. Early 2000s.. Out of almost 500 students, very few didn't experience any issue. Between hinge issues, dead screens, dead HDD, motherboards.... It was a disaster. It became like a running joke to hint to a brand that doesn't deliver. Today, I work in IT/Telco and I am impressed because HPE servers are dominant compared to DELL. No comparison.

[@churblefurbles]

She gutted the HP way.

[@hopeseekr]

I worked as an independent consultant for HP on the Compaq Campus in North Houston in 2013. It was INCREDIBLY BIZARRE (!!). I was given my own office (first and only time ever!) It took 3 weeks for them to get me a log in to the work computer, so I worked on my laptop. The SVN username was "root" and everyone used it. 100% of the svn log showed 1 author: root. Americans told me it was so there was no accountability. Every American would exit the campus at around 2 PM and only H1B Indians and myself would remain. None of the Americans came to work until 10 am or later, except me. I was the only PHP and SQL expert on the entire campus and constantly bounced between teams. I worked there for 4 months and finished the projejct and left.

[@REDREDStrawberry]

Thank you for going back to the previous format

[@slyraccoon17]

I just got to the library so HP doesn't get to spy on me

[@mutantryeff]

HP's quality (product and documentation) was at the highest quality in the 1970s and early 1980s. I recently purchased an Fury 16 laptop with their largest docking station. The docking station arrived DOA. The replacement worked for 30 days. I don't even know if I followed through to get a 3rd one as I found another brand and am using it. I have no faith in HP products. Go back and read the documentation for the HP3000 computers. They go into extreme details as to how the CPU steps microcode through the processor. Today, documentation is an afterthought if it even exists.

[@LogicallyAnswered]

Oof

[@thinking-laaf]

Hp test equipment from the 70s and 80s came with full service manuals. Including theory of operations and step by step trouble shooting instructions. Including Schematics!

[@mechemoy]

Grat video as always!

[@LogicallyAnswered]

Thank you man!

[@ebx100]

I was an HP engineer during his time. When I heard that HP was merging with Compaq, I was angry as hell. Compaq was one of the accounts I serviced, flying there weekly to help them integrate HP disk drives with Compaq computers. Like almost all the other engineers at HP, I too lost my job. A typical capitalism in America run amok story.

[@merchantmareed]

You mean capitalism working

[@LogicallyAnswered]

Sorry to hear that man. Looks like you landed on your feet though :)

[@analogdesigner-Jay]

Hewlett and Packard are turning in their graves as to how their creation was destroyed. When she was appointed CEO, my friend and long time HP RF engineer said "The old HP is gone"!

[@thegooddoctor6719]

Another insightful video. Thanks......

[@MichaelToub]

Great Video!

[@lorgariiix]

HP 3 IN 1 for some reason the other 2 functions will not work without ink......they got sued for this....

[@akin242002]

HP EliteBook 840 laptops are solid for business. Same with HP Zbook workstations and HP EliteDesk mini-PCs. All their other products are bad to horrible.

[@RaghulS-hj6vt]

@akin242002, how about hp victus,omen and transcend ?

[@AzmainFieque]

replying from 840 g6, 3 years but no single issue

[@helmutzollner5496]

HP has split into 4 companies now. Hewlett Packard -> HP + Agilent, HP -> HP + HPE, Agilent -> Agileny + Keysight.

[@mavberil.2059]

Strategy and management without engineering in this documentary similar to the era of those spoken about.

[@camdenmacleod16]

As a former owner of an HP laptop I would never buy anything from them they're always underpowered

[@steverl22]

HP got GIRL BOSS'd..... She walked away with $42,000,000 🤔

[@answerman9933]

I respected Hewlett-Packard test equipment and legacy calculators, not so much their personal computer products.

[@gerhardschreiber5866]

Never buy an Elite HP notebook, only the name is elite the rest is scrap.

[@CiscoZero]

12:47 he really did say physical instead of fiscal. lol

[@drones7838]

Last two HP laptops have been built proof for sure

[@philcoffi8876]

Does someone need a CEO experience to be a CEO?

[@NondumisoNyembezi]

I was wondering the same thing

[@guido7079]

I got a HP laptop i like it. The softaware/bliatware not so much. Evry few years a laptop just needs a factory reset to clean up all the bloatware.

[@Random_1384x]

Now all we need is gta iv physics and car handles and a niko bellic skin mod and boom well done gta iv remaster is here with optimizations

[@gabrielebianchi8976]

Quite frankly I think that bankruptcy it's the right punishment for who invented the "print subscription" to print with a printer, ink, paper and softwares that you have already paid for. I think it's the only way to avoid greedy investors appointing greedy mangers at the helm of their companies.

[@geoffstrickler]

Fiorina ruined HP and CPQ. She was a disaster. That they gave her a $42M severance is a perfect example of what it wrong with corporate America and the complete lack of accountability of CEOs.

[@SmarkDepper]

As a technician. I still hate Hinge Problem. Like... its totally their identity.

[@adelewalsh1377]

You missed the part where HP Enterprise - their professional services division was spun off to DXC ... why don't you do a story about DXC ... and I couldn't figure out why or how DXC bought it for a pittance (at least in APAC) .... and it was their most profitable division ... hardware (umless you're nVidia) is not where the money is any more ....

[@bysshe51]

Or Apple who can inflate hardware prices with brand

[@jimpad5608]

At that time, dell was trying to kill gaIteway and Compaq was collateral damage. Carly could have waited and picked up the scraps of Compaq for pennies because HP was actually much stronger than Compaq. Carly's biggest problem is she was an arrogant idiot. The answers for the problems HP had were readily available in the divisions and HP labs. At that time I was working in the applied engineering part of HP labs and we had lots of new products in the pipeline that Carly did not understand or care about. For example I have an early production run of a device very similar to an iPhone running Linux long before the iPhone was released. In fact the early version of Android appeared to violate several of HP labs patents but by then HP no longer cared. Now HP Inc is now just a marketing company with all their products designed and manufactured by ODM.

[@clarkisaac6372]

HP's notebooks were changed for better quality and designs since the new HP was formed.

[@misaonthefly]

They are making millions with ink

[@LogicallyAnswered]

Yes sir

Their laptops were so bad that I switched to a Mac because of them. I won't even talk about their printers.

[@raymondyu7933]

I don‘t have many complaints about HP‘s Product, expect i have to agree to other‘s comment about HP‘s Printer where it used to be top quailty of affordability. Funny moments as HP Brand Shareholders, i guess.

[@User24x]

I still hate HP for giving me a crappy loud laptop fan & fan replacement. Lenovo ftw.

[@LogicallyAnswered]

Fair enough

[@nebufabu]

My personal great business history what-if is unmerged Compaq possibly becoming what Apple is now. Their handheld stuff was years ahead of anyone else, and Fiorina squandered it all...

[@TimEssDub]

All these people are complaining about HP laptop issues and my work issued me an HP laptop about 2 years ago. I've had no issues with it whatsoever and only use it for work. What am I doing wrong?

[@thinking-laaf]

Compaq was a friendly merger of Compaq and Digital Equipment Corporation. HP destroyed DEC.

[@seansingh4421]

I have extremely positive experience with HP’s enterprise workstations like Z440 and z4. Everything else ?….yeah its the opposite 😂😂😂

[@sourabhmayekar3354]

Nice

[@rrutter81]

great video!

[@LogicallyAnswered]

Thank you Rutter!

[@rrutter81]

@LogicallyAnswered damn. you actually respond to viewers. subscribed.

[@szpunar85]

My dad wouldn't listen to me and bought hp laser printer (color), he doesn't print too much and there is no need for top quality but knew the brand. After a ~year he had to replace the cartridge. He doesn't know how to do it so the task was on me, I went online to shop and found out that in order to install generic fairly priced cartridge you need to take out microchips from the original ones and place them in the new ones (HP cartridges cost half the price of a goddamn printer). I consider mysefl a sane person so I won't be doing that, instead I went to the nearest store and bough him a brother ink printer, it was cheaper than the replacement cartridges for hp, the whole printer. Sure its ink not laser but does it make that much difference? I hope they burn to the ground.

[@balpreetsingh6834]

Great video as always

[@LogicallyAnswered]

Thank you as always Balpreet!

[@JanBruunAndersen]

Not a word about the aqusition of EDS?

[@raymondyu7933]

It was a nearly baragin deal to HP, EDS was about file banktrupy back then.

[@raymondyu7933]

Thanks for remembering myself the history of hiring as EDS Staff almost working EDS‘s Project Contactor, which i only start recover from such distaster that i would not imagine myself to put this part of dark history behind until COVID19 hit.

[@You-ike]

Great quality video! :)

[@LogicallyAnswered]

Thank you man!

[@mariok-t3198]

The computer is personal again....I remember this campaign ...I used to watch the ads while on break in a canteen in Limerick's DELL PCs assembly plant back in 2006

[@outofhere7623]

Another major blunder, right up there with jerry yang’s Microsoft snub.

[@abc_cba]

In the world of personal PC's, ASUS and Lenovo have the greatest hand whether laptops or PC sets. HP is nowhere close, what do you think about it?

[@jimpad5608]

Lenovo is ex-IBM and continues the old corporate culture. Great management and engineering. Unlike HP Dell and most others they design and manufacture their products. According to rumors, Asus designs and makes some Mac products for Apple.

[@answerman9933]

0:01 What is the point of the weird eyes?

[@MIAFLUX_Official]

Mashallah! What A Great Effort Brother In Every Aspect Of Media Production. Hope You Go With This A Long In The Future. Inshallah!

[@menel1k]

Lenovo better.

[@buhingkalbaryo]

My Hp laptop is a crap. Crappy hinges☝️

[@charismafunds]

My laptop had a keyboard problem. No matter how many replacements it has a default issue. Don’t buy HP.

[@chadlehman3001]

I used to love hp. Them there stuff turned into shit.

[@LogicallyAnswered]

😢

[@Trolledbykaira]

Good

[@nogamenolife9182]

I'll never use an HP product. Their laptops are complete garbage. Their servers are always problematic and don't even get me started on their printers.

[@sunalwaysshinesonTVs]

The downfall is what happens when DEI drives decision making.

[@squirrel9760]

You have a lack of brain cells.

[@robotnikkkk001]

...WELL, *_IF SOMEONE IS TELLING ABOUT making the numbers,THIS SOMEONE AIMING FOR GOLDEN PARACHUTE_* AND ACTUALLY HAS no interest in any further perspective ........BUT still.....WHAT THEY'RE BEEN DOING RIGHT now IS UNEXCUSABLE AND I wondering WHAT CHAIN OF EVENTS LEAD TO printer subscription

[@RPcropland]

Hurd was no better

[@esselsid3727]

Hugely Problematic

[@Papasot]

Hp = Hinge problem

[@boulderbash19700209]

And then she wanted to become US President 😂

[@BOZ_11]

Wimmin 🤷

[@Elonbaba2624]

Always buy framework laptop

[@RovinTan]

dont expect a girl to do a man's job

[@georgesos]

what do you mean "she didn't have CEO experience "? how stupid is this ?

[@AFAGamingYT]

Top 20 comments!

[@LogicallyAnswered]

Thanks for being early bro!

[@GrayManReal]

Asus better

[@LogicallyAnswered]

For gaming?

[@GrayManReal]

@LogicallyAnswered yeah

[@lynseyluvsatwink9800]

You are confusing share price, with actual value. Tesla has a huge stock value, but absolutely zero chance of ever turning a profit, ever. HP on the other hand could actually be a solid and profitable company, but they're reputation is awful. Their products used to be respected for quality and innovation, now that just basically make trash that will be tossed in a few months when you realize that it will never work properly, because it was just a conduit to sell you expensive ink. HP has basically become Columbia House Music Club, and I doubt you know what that was so look it up. Oh yea, and try and put more stress on your consonants, it sounds like your talking with a balloon stuck in your throat and it's very distracting.

[@Quantum-1157]

Why on earth would someone who can’t parallel park be allowed to be CEO of HP? The consequences are etched in history 😂

[@Mr.SharkTooth-zc8rm]

[@choqao]

heyy

[@LogicallyAnswered]

Hey Choqao

[@idrathernot_2]

>woman Found the problem

[@illegalalien6542]

Sexist much? 🙄

[@squirrel9760]

Somehow she would do miles better than you

[@MrTewaka2]

I had a company for 25 years. I had many towers laptops and printers and by far. Like twice to 3x worst than any other computer company. HP should never have survived. Once again another proud American company so completely full of shit (:-)

[@NondumisoNyembezi]

Which were your best if I may ask?

[@MrTewaka2]

@NondumisoNyembezi in the end i built my own. It's pritty easy to build a 5k tower for about 2k

[@geoffstrickler]

Fiorina ruined HP and CPQ. She was a disaster. That they gave her a $42M severance is a perfect example of what it wrong with corporate America and the complete lack of accountability of CEOs.