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Aw... Eric Schmidt. I suspect Larry and Sergey would have done a couple times better had VCs not shoved a CEO down their throats. Controlling for company traje
by lexisuseless 13y ago
Aw... Eric Schmidt. I suspect Larry and Sergey would have done a couple times better had VCs not shoved a CEO down their throats. Controlling for company trajectory vector at the time they joined, Eric Schmidt is in the ballpark of John Scully.
I never had a feeling that he's a smart guy watching him talk (in contrast with Larry and Sergey and Zuck) and I generally despise his attention-whore attitude and kissing ass in political circles.
And everyone knows not to use lex.
- asdfologist 13y agoUm, it says right there in the headline that Sergey was complicit in this too.
- yuhong 13y agoRead the article in more detail.
- asdfologist 13y agoUm, perhaps you should? The article makes no inference that Schmidt had a bigger role. In fact, the article mentions Brin more often than Schmidt.
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- yuhong 13y ago"Brin appears to not know what the nature of the agreement is between the two companies." I actually started another thread discussing this exact topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7455116 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7455116
- asdfologist 13y agoI don't see your point. Ok, so Jobs talked to Schmidt before talking to Brin. Either way, Brin continued the practice and actively promoted it.
- meowface 13y agoNot who you replied to, but: Brin seemed pretty complicit in it. He didn't make the final decision to appease Jobs, but he asked for a temporary stay in recruiting Apple employees and obviously agreed with Schmidt's decision to ban all recruiting.
- lexisuseless 13y agoI wasn't ranking them on the evilness axis. Just smartness.
- laureny 13y ago> Aw... Eric Schmidt. I suspect Larry and Sergey would have done a couple times better A couple of times better than what? Being multi billionaires and leading one of the most powerful and most respected companies in the world? Most experts agree that picking Erick Schmidt as CEO was instrumental to Google's success.
- mark_l_watson 13y agoEric has a BS in CS from Princeton, and MS + PhD in CS from Berkeley. Seems like he has an inner geek, and I would argue that he did a good job at Google.