Holy shit I did not know this.

Carly Fiorina became CEO of HP without an engineering degree or any tech skills

“You know,” she went on, her voice dropping, as if weighed down by emotion, “I have lived the American dream.” That was her segue into a condensed version of her professional biography: a liberal-arts degree from Stanford University that didn’t qualify her for anything in particular; an abandoned stab at law school; secretarial work; and then, thanks to a late-blooming focus and a lot of ferocious effort, a dizzying climb up the corporate ladder, culminating in more than five years as the chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard