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The article profiles former chief executive officer of online auction website eBay Meg Whitman, who is campaigning to become the governor of California. The author reports that politics and business are very different careers, and Whitman's greatest obstacle may be convincing citizens that she's a competent politician. Whitman is a socially moderate Republican and a billionaire.

The article discusses the potential impact on marijuana growers in Northern California of a ballot question that would legalize marijuana for personal use. A 1995 law that legalized medical use of marijuana helped produce a very lucrative quasi-black market for growers. If the ballot question is approved, marijuana prices are apt to decline.

The article discusses American women's-rights attorney Gloria Allred, focusing on her role as a California political delegate at the Democratic National Convention who is supporting 2016 Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton. Allred's views about supporters of fellow U.S. presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders are examined, along with U.S. legislator Nancy Pelosi and California's Attorney-General Kamala Harris. Clinton's nomination for the presidency is assessed.

The article profiles Cupcake Brown, a litigator at the law firm Bingham McCutchen LLP in San Francisco. Brown was a former foster child and sexual abuse victim. She had helped start a safe house for teen prostitutes and she has written a memoir, "A Piece of Cake." The lesson she learned in life is to keep on trying no matter how many times one may fall.