Eric Schmidt
13 statements across 4 episodes · 1 bullish · 4 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Mar 29, 2023 by Marissa Mayer · across every show →
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Mar 29, 2023
Mayer: Executive leadership is defense and clearing roadblocks for teams
“Ultimately, as Eric Schmidt will always say, you know, leadership is defense. You know, he's like, look, unfortunately, as an executive, like, you don't get to write code, you don't get to design things anymore. Your job is point the team in a direction and th…”
May 12, 2023 positive
Schmidt: Persistence and curiosity are the top predictors of knowledge worker success
“Persistence is the single biggest predictor of future success, and so we would look for persistence. And the second thing was curiosity. What do you care about? The combination of persistence and curiosity is a very good predictor of employee success in a know…”
May 12, 2023 negative
Schmidt feared AdWords auction would bankrupt Google, imposing Friday cash limits
“I was absolutely convinced that this would bankrupt the company. And I was so convinced that I ordered a cash restriction period Where the only thing that you could do was spend money on Friday mornings at 10. You had to come to my office and you had to convin…”
May 12, 2023 negative
Schmidt: Cross-functional 'glue people' add little value and are unnecessary
“And glue people are very nice people who sit between functions and help either side, but don't themselves add a lot of value. And I thought, these are nice people, but we don't really need them. We can have these groups talking directly.”
May 12, 2023
May 12, 2023 negative
May 12, 2023
Aug 17, 2023 neutral
Aug 17, 2023
Aug 17, 2023 neutral
Schmidt: Leaders have six to nine months to change company culture
“The other thing I learned, and this is from Lou Gerstner, Who said, who had written a whole book on this, and his IBM turnaround, he said, you only have six to nine months to change the culture of a company before you're stuck with it.”
Sep 18, 2024
Sep 18, 2024 negative