Eric Schmidt said on Tuesday the genesis of the thinking for Sidewalk Labs came from Google's founders getting excited thinking of "all the things you could do

Eric Schmidt said on Tuesday the genesis of the thinking for Sidewalk Labs came from Google's founders getting excited thinking of "all the things you could do if someone would just give us a city and put us in charge," although he joked he knew there were good reasons that doesn't happen. He then related his reaction when the company discovered it had won the bid for the development of its city-as-a-platform model: "Oh my God! We've been selected. Now, it's our turn." Google being given a city sounds like hell, but they'll probably stop supporting it after a few years, anyway. The grandiosity and ego of tech CEOs never ceases to amaze. You'd think someone with so much power wouldn't so casually drop that they want a city, too. Why don't you guys focus on your existing empire?