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Arena CEO: There Will be a $100BN US Open-Source Model & Data is a Trillion Dollar Market Aug 2, 2026 · 1 mention

Nebius Co-Founder on AI Infrastructure Bubbles | How Price Elastic is Demand for Compute · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 8, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:00:30 Harry Stebbings Eric Schmidt's getting booed offstage, um, not because of the content, but because of the AI inventions.

Anthropic Raises $30BN at $900BN Price | SpaceX Files S1: How Does it Trade | Cerebras Smashes Day 1 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 21, 2026 · 4 mentions

ElevenLabs: Building an AI Sales Machine & Why We Set a 20x Sales Quota · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 11, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 16:38 unnamed speaker Like, together with Eric Schmidt.

Klarna CEO: SaaS is Dead: Why Systems of Record Will Die in an Agentic World · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 16, 2026 · 1 mention

Imran Khan: Why the IPO Market is Not Closed & Lessons From Taking Snap & Alibaba Public | E1194 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 26, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 44:18 Imran Khan Uh, we went to see Larry, Sarge, Eric Schmidt, and I remember one thing that really stood out along the ride, like, listen, this is 20 years ago, so I don't, I can't say word by word, but basically, Larry said that the most transformative…

Nikesh Arora: Lessons from $102BN Market Cap & How to Create & Sustain Competitive Advantage | E1155 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 20, 2024 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 8:52 Nikesh Arora My old boss, Eric Schmidt, used to say, you know, cash doesn't solve all problems for mankind, but does take care of a lot of them.
  • ▶ 27:11 Harry Stebbings Eric Schmidt once said, I wish I'd made better decisions or my better decisions faster. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 29:28 Nikesh Arora Uh, you know, at Google, I, I was very stroppy with Eric when they bought Android. 4 times in the scene

Frank Quattrone: Lessons from 650 M&A Deals Worth Over $1TRN & Taking Amazon and Cisco Public| E1121 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 1, 2024 · 1 mention

Noam Shazeer: How We Spent $2M to Train a Single AI Model and Grew Character.ai to 20M Users | E1055 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 31, 2023 · 1 mention

Hugo Barra: How I Built Hardware for Android, Xiaomi, and Oculus | 20VC #947 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 9, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 3:26 Hugo Barra Now, back then, and this is kind of incredible, Google CEO Eric Schmidt sat on Apple's board of directors, which is a crazy thing to think these days, and it was basically like having a crystal ball. 2 times in the scene

Emil Michael: How I Negotiated the $4B Uber-China Deal, Why DoorDash Caught Up to Uber | 20VC #941 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 25, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:22 Emil Michael You know, it's, um, they call them the coach, the trillion dollar coach, because he would, as you know, coach, um, Steve Jobs, who no one in the world thought was coachable, and then he would coach, uh, Larry Page and Eric Schmidt and, and…

20VC: The Memo: Chris Sacca on Why We Are Breeding a Generation of Entitled Assholes, Harley Finkelstein on What Great Fatherhood Really Means, Deena Shakir on How Kids Make You a Better Investor and Anne Wojcicki on How Children Change Your Approach to R May 4, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 11:48 Chris Sacca You know, Larry, Sergey, and Eric had a pretty strong compass, but there were times back in Google, and so I'm talking like literally, oh, five, oh, six,

20VC: Brex's Henrique Dubugras on Advice from Evan Spiegel and Eric Schmidt on CEOship, The Biggest Hiring Mistakes When Scaling, What Everyone Gets Wrong with Product Messaging and When is the Right Time to Launch Secondary Products Apr 15, 2022 · 1 mention

Chris Sacca's True Unfiltered Opinion on Facebook and Softbank | Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 20, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 26:56 Chris Sacca That, you know, Larry, Sergey, and Eric had a pretty strong compass, but there were times back in Google, and so I'm talking like literally, oh, five, oh, six, where we had to decide what to do about, uh, about China.
  • ▶ 43:16 Chris Sacca The maverick future leaders, and, um, and Eric had us on the thing we don't talk about.

20VC: Chris Sacca on Coming Out of Retirement To Unf**k The Planet with Lowercarbon, How Chris Evaluates His Relationship To Money Today, Why We Have Bred a Generation of Ass**** Kids, Do VCs Provide Any Real Value and The True Unfiltered Opinion on Faceb Oct 11, 2021 · 2 mentions

20VC: Ashton Kutcher on Early Lessons From Investing in Airbnb and Spotify, Why VC Ownership Requirements Are Becoming More and More Egregious & What Being Good At Product Truly Means Feb 17, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 32:48 Ashton Kutcher I would recommend you reading The Trillion Dollar Coach, which is Eric Schmidt's book about Bill Campbell.

Breaking News: Meet First Round Capital's Newest Partner, How To Approach Generational Transition as a Venture Firm & The Dangers of Attribution In Venture Feb 4, 2020 · 1 mention

20VC: Why Now Is The Hardest Time To Raise an Institutional Pre-Seed in the Last Decade, What To Do When The Founder and VC Interests Do Not Align & The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds with Gaurav Jain, Founder & Managing Partner @ Afore Capital Jan 6, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 34:07 Gaurav Jain He's had a product at Google, and Eric Schmidt, and it was by Bill Campbell, who was a coach for Larry and Sergey, Steve Jobs, many of the iconic founders in Silicon Valley.

20VC: USV's Rebecca Kaden on Whether Venture Returns Can Be Made At Scale In Consumer Today & How To Navigate Consumer Investing In A World of Amazon Oct 1, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:28 Rebecca Kaden But I had a close mentor at school who was a guy named Bill Campbell, who passed away a couple years ago, but was a really phenomenal guy, and he was largely known for mentoring the big guys, you know, Eric Schmidt and Steve Jobs and these…

20VC: The Core Lessons From Building a 150 Startup Angel Portfolio, Why Founders Who Angel Invest Have Such Strong Advantages and Why The Lean Startup Makes Less and Less Sense Today with Adrian Aoun, Founder & CEO @ Forward May 25, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings To date, Adrian has raised funding from some of the true greats of the business, including Mark Benioff, Eric Schmidt, Joe Lonsdale, Aaron Levy, and Josh Kushner, just to name a few.

20VC: Why Radical Candor Is Crucial in Workplaces, Why 85% of Work Relationship Mistakes Happen and Why You Should Not Try and Be More Likeable with Kim Scott, Co-Founder @ Candor Inc Jul 7, 2017 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 7:39 Kim Scott So this happened shortly after I had joined Google, and I had to give a presentation to Google's founders and the CEO, Eric Schmidt. 4 times in the scene

20VC: Evernote CEO on Why You Play For The Front of Your Jersey Not The Back, Why Success Is A Team Sport & Why Leadership Should Accept The Negative Consequences In All Situations Jun 9, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:19 Chris O'Neill So really, you know, when Eric Schmidt would share with the entire company, the board letter, that really left a mark on me.

20VC: Lessons Learnt From Marc Benioff & Selling To Salesforce For $2.7bn, What Product Market Fit Really Looks Like & Why Pricing Is Startup's Biggest Problem with Scott Dorsey, Managing Partner @ HighAlpha Dec 5, 2016 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:21 Scott Dorsey And then these trips out to Silicon Valley, we met with Eric Schmidt when he was running Novell prior to moving over to Google.

20VC: Felicis' Wesley Chan on The Rise of IoT, Getting Recruited by Larry Page & Creating Google's Biggest Success Disaster Jun 29, 2016 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 17:29 Wesley Chan You know, when I, uh, there's this very famous story, uh, that Eric Schmidt has told before. 2 times in the scene
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