but unlike her father fiorina dropped out after just one semester. i felt happy. afraid. but happy. i grew up that day. i had made a truly difficult decision on my own. i felt lonely in that choice. afraid of its consequences. but certain i had chosen well. soon she found work as a receptionist at a real estate firm where she worked her way up the corporate ladder eventually landing at at&t where she excelled in business and romance. falling for her future husband, frank fiorina. carly s first marriage had ended in divorce. she says her ex was threatened by her success. with frank, however, it was love at first sight. on their third date he told her someday she d be ceo of at&t and he was almost right. frank and carly later married and she helped his girls. tracy was grown up beyond her years, lori starved for affection. i fell in love with both of them too, over our first meal together of chinese takeout. in the mid 1990s she would be
frank fiorina. carly s first marriage had ended in divorce. she says her ex was threatened by her success. with frank, however, it was love at first sight. on their third date he told her someday she d be ceo of at&t and he was almost right. frank and carly later married and she helped rayise his girls. tracy was grown up beyond her years, lori starved for affection. i fell in love with both of them too, over our first meal together of chinese takeout. in the mid 1990s she would be the spinoff of at&t and recognized by fortune as the most powerful woman in business for six consecutive years. remember frank s earlier prediction? well in 1999, hewlett-packard came calling and she became the first female ceo of a top 20 u.s. corporation. once there she restored hp to a jewel of silicon valley and engineered a $25 billion acquisition of compac.