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Google Part III: The AI Company. Google is amazingly well-positioned... will they win in AI? (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:55:06 Ben Gilbert There's what Eric Schmidt wanted, which is crazy.
Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 20:43 David Rosenthal Eric Schmidt for Double Shore realizes it because he was the CEO of Novell before coming to Google.
- ▶ 22:05 David Rosenthal For all the reasons we just described, Google, Larry, Sergey, Eric, they want it to be so compelling that consumers demand it.
- ▶ 28:01 David Rosenthal So once Gmail starts to take off, Larry and Sergey and Eric see this and they're like, wow, we should do this a lot.
- ▶ 42:56 David Rosenthal By the way, WordPerfect acquired by and run by Novell, who was the CEO of Novell, Eric Schmidt.
- ▶ 43:03 David Rosenthal Eric knows all about this.
- ▶ 1:41:27 David Rosenthal Tim immediately sounds the alarm inside Google to Eric and Larry.
- ▶ 1:57:32 David Rosenthal But it was Eric who said in 2001, no, we can't do this now.
- ▶ 1:57:43 Ben Gilbert Calls like this are why Larry and Sergey brought in Eric.
- ▶ 1:57:48 David Rosenthal Eric.
- ▶ 1:57:49 David Rosenthal The actual quote from Eric at the time this is in In the Plex is, I don't want to moon the giant.
- ▶ 1:57:58 Ben Gilbert It's a very Eric Schmidt quote.
- ▶ 2:01:33 David Rosenthal So there's a quote from Eric Schmidt in, in the Plex.
- ▶ 2:36:12 David Rosenthal Eric and Larry and Sergey, they all knew that they were late.
- ▶ 2:36:34 Ben Gilbert Eric's on the board at this point, right, of Apple?
- ▶ 2:39:44 David Rosenthal Summer of 2006, that next year, Eric Schmidt joins the Apple board.
- ▶ 2:40:05 David Rosenthal Eric is in the freaking keynote.
- ▶ 2:40:07 David Rosenthal Steve Jobs invites Eric Schmidt on stage.
- ▶ 2:40:21 David Rosenthal Now, I believe Eric had disclosed to Steve about the Sooner project, because obviously it was public that Google had acquired Android, and I believe that Steve Jobs knew that Google was working on, like, a Blackberry-style phone, but he…
- ▶ 2:40:42 David Rosenthal So Eric comes on stage, and you go watch this, we'll link to this in, in this clip,
- ▶ 2:40:54 David Rosenthal Eric comes on stage.
- ▶ 2:43:55 David Rosenthal So, remember, Eric Schmidt is on the Apple board.
- ▶ 2:45:27 David Rosenthal Now, interestingly, he doesn't actually kick Eric Schmidt off the board until 2009.
- ▶ 3:23:40 Ben Gilbert I don't know if he raised his hand, I don't know if Larry said, hey, I really think you should do this on our behalf, but what is definitely true is it became Vic's thing, and Eric and Larry and Sergei stepped back and let Vic run with it,…
- ▶ 3:29:32 David Rosenthal So when I was a business school student at Stanford, Eric was now
- ▶ 3:29:50 David Rosenthal And I remember Eric coming into class right after it happened and just being like, God damn it.
- ▶ 4:01:44 Ben Gilbert As someone told me this in the research, it's been sort of batting around in my head, and then I'm reading Eric Schmidt's book, and Eric Schmidt said he would ask PMs, what is your core technical insight that makes it all work?
- ▶ 4:01:55 Ben Gilbert And if there wasn't a good answer, he wouldn't fund the project.
Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:43:44 David Rosenthal Through all of it, you know, 1617, 18 months in, finally, Eric Schmidt emerges as probably the only viable candidate out there, and I think Eric was acceptable to both sides, both because he was an actual engineer and had been at Sun, he…
- ▶ 1:44:13 David Rosenthal And so Eric joins in March of, and again, I think Larry and Sergey were still kind of resentful of the process.
- ▶ 1:44:21 David Rosenthal I think it did come to work pretty well, and they and Larry especially realized, hey, there's parts of being a CEO, especially as we're getting bigger, that like, I don't really like, and Eric can do those things.
- ▶ 1:44:38 David Rosenthal I can have Eric do those things, and it ended up working
- ▶ 1:45:23 Ben Gilbert It was so uniquely googly that there would have been organ rejection if Eric tried to take a heavier hand.
- ▶ 1:45:29 Ben Gilbert I mean, he really kind of came in with a lens toward learning and understanding
- ▶ 1:45:36 Ben Gilbert There was somebody who decided very early in his tenure, maybe even on his first day, to move into his office with him, because there wasn't enough space anywhere else.
- ▶ 1:45:43 Ben Gilbert And so he was, like, camped out.
- ▶ 1:45:52 David Rosenthal It was a little bit of, like, an acid test for him.
- ▶ 1:48:05 David Rosenthal And I think Eric really bought into this because it was a risk.
- ▶ 1:48:09 David Rosenthal Even though he joined Google in 2001 and a lot of these portal deals were already underway, the Yahoo portal deal had already happened.
- ▶ 1:48:32 David Rosenthal Taking a risk to come back to a private company that, yes, had a lot of usage, but hey, startups are out of favor now, and I think it was really him making a bet, too, of like, no, this is what I want, and I'm gonna buy into this.
- ▶ 1:48:47 David Rosenthal All right, so what was Eric walking into here with Google in, call it, spring of 2001?
- ▶ 1:49:09 David Rosenthal Eric hasn't started yet, but Larry and Sergey now turn their attention back to ads, and they're really not happy.
- ▶ 2:17:14 Ben Gilbert 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.
- ▶ 2:18:12 Ben Gilbert Eventually Google finally just withdrew and rather than censoring results in 2010, but basically everywhere that is not China starting in 2001 with Schmidt being like, we need an international business.
- ▶ 2:31:44 Ben Gilbert She joined, David, as you mentioned, sometime in the last year, right around when Eric Schmidt joined, or right after that, and she was looking for the right job to do.
- ▶ 3:06:18 David Rosenthal There's this legend that Eric Schmidt talks about of, they also, they got a letter from a little old lady that, uh, hearing that Google was about to go public and really hoping she could get it and that the small retail investor would have…
Microsoft Volume I: The Complete History and Strategy of founding through Windows 95 (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:17:19 David Rosenthal Eric Schmidt worked at Xerox PARC.
Amazon Web Services · Acquired
- ▶ 9:19 David Rosenthal I believe the quote from Eric Schmidt in the everything store was the book guys finally got technology.
Amazon.com · Acquired
- ▶ 1:42:16 David Rosenthal There are a couple great Eric Schmidt quotes in the Everything Store.
- ▶ 1:42:22 David Rosenthal Eric Schmidt, of course, former CEO of Google.
- ▶ 2:32:59 David Rosenthal With Steve Jobs, Google, with, you know, Eric Schmidt, Intuit, with Scott Cook.
The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave) · Acquired
- ▶ 14:00 Brendan Eich I met Eric Schmidt briefly.