Eric Schmidt

3 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 30, 2025 by Ben Gilbert · said 52 times in 7 episodes since 2022 · across every show →

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2025 46 mentions in 3 episodes 15 per episode

Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired Aug 26, 2025 · 27 mentions · from 20:43
Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired Jun 30, 2025 · 18 mentions · from 1:43:44
Google Part III: The AI Company. Google is amazingly well-positioned... will they win in AI? (Audio) · Acquired Oct 6, 2025 · 1 mention · from 2:55:06
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2024 1 mention in 1 episode

Microsoft Volume I: The Complete History and Strategy of founding through Windows 95 (Audio) · Acquired Apr 22, 2024 · 1 mention · from 2:17:19
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2022 5 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode

Amazon.com · Acquired Aug 16, 2022 · 3 mentions · from 1:42:16
Amazon Web Services · Acquired Sep 6, 2022 · 1 mention · from 9:19
The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave) · Acquired Feb 15, 2022 · 1 mention · from 14:00
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Everything said about Eric Schmidt, oldest first

Jun 30, 2025 neutral

Assertion Supported

Gilbert: Half of Google searches were international with zero ad sales

“The other thing that's happening at this exact same time is Eric Schmidt arrives and discovers that 50% of Google's searches are outside the U.S., but they have no international ad sales.”

Ben Gilbert Jun 30, 2025 ▶ 2:17:14 Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired

Jun 30, 2025 neutral

What-if

Gilbert: Google would have rejected Eric Schmidt if he used a heavy hand

“It was so uniquely googly that there would have been organ rejection if Eric tried to take a heavier hand.”

Ben Gilbert Jun 30, 2025 ▶ 1:45:23 Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired

Oct 6, 2025 neutral

Assertion Contradicted

Eric Schmidt Proposed Google Acquire Tesla for Self-Driving Tech

“There's what Eric Schmidt wanted, which is crazy. He proposed, oh, let's just go buy Tesla, and that'll be our starting place, and then we'll just put all of our self-driving equipment on all the cars.”

Ben Gilbert Oct 6, 2025 ▶ 2:55:06 Google Part III: The AI Company. Google is amazingly well-positioned... will they win in AI? (Audio) · Acquired

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