The long shot campaign of a recovering CEO

摘要

More than 30 years ago, on Carly Sneed's third date with her co-worker, Frank Fiorina, he told his not yet 30-year-old dinner companion that one day she would run AT&T, the company where he was at that point a rung ahead of her on the corporate ladder. "It was a good line; she loved it," he says. Frank retired at 48 to travel with Carly. He doesn't recall much else about the evening. "I just remember making out in the car." But Frank's view of Carly's extra-large future wasn't only a line; he meant it, and for Carly, it was a validation of her burgeoning ambition. "It was a startling thing," Carly Fiorina says a few days later, when she sits down with me to talk about her intention, barring catastrophe, to run for president in 2016. "But you know, when you're a woman growing up in a man's world, when someone takes you seriously, it's such a relief."