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Candidate Whitman (Meg Whitman)

Lead: Foreign media, wrote recently, the world's only 14 women's personal wealth of more than 1 billion U.S. dollars-only accounted for all the self-made super-rich 2%, but ebay's predecessor, Whitman Meg Whitman.

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Whitman won the California Republican Governor nomination on June 8, marking the success of California's first female Republican party. It is also the first time that a woman candidate has invested so much personal money in the election campaign. According to the estimates, Whitman, 54, is worth about 1.3 billion dollars. So far, she has spent more than 70 million of dollars on her campaign and has reported that she is willing to devote so much money to the election.

Such a big investment is risky, but even more surprising is that Whitman has so much money to spend. 12 years ago, Whitman was just a rookie of a female executive with an excellent career record, and she worked for companies such as Procter and Gamble, Disney and Hasbro (Hasbro). In 1998, she made a bold leap to accept the post of CEO of ebay, a small technology company with just 30 employees. Salary is the stock of this emerging company.

The decision has made Whitman quickly among the world's 1011 super-rich. More rarely, she is one of only 14 self-made women in the world, rather than inheriting property to gain wealth. Among the 14 super-rich, China's yajun, with a net worth of $3.9 billion, ranked No. 232 in Forbes ' March list of the world's super-rich in 2010. By contrast, the number of male super-rich from scratch has reached 665, including Carlos Slim-Slim Helu, the world's three richest men, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett Warren.