Eric Schmidt, every mention
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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
- ▶ 1:57:43 Ben Gilbert Calls like this are why Larry and Sergey brought in Eric.
- ▶ 1:57:58 Ben Gilbert It's a very Eric Schmidt quote.
- ▶ 2:36:34 Ben Gilbert Eric's on the board at this point, right, of Apple?
- ▶ 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,…
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 1:45:23 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.
- ▶ 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.