Google's Eric Schmidt as Innovator

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Many published accounts of goggle describe you as having been the adult in the room, or the person who brought discipline to gogle's processes. Well, it's important to establish that larry and sirget were the technological and strategic, brilliant minds here. My job was sot of keep everything ised. And ii, i had and have a bunch of rules in my mind about how you should run things. Inevitably half the people talk, half the people don't talk, right? So against in general terms, so in iters of interruptions and so forth.

The son of an economist, Eric Schmidt eschewed his father’s profession, first studying architecture before settling on computer science and eventually earning a PhD. Now one of the most influential technology executives in the world, he still however credits his interest in network economies and platforms for a large part of his success.

In this live event hosted by Village Global in San Francisco, Tyler questioned Schmidt about underused management strategies, what Google learned after interviewing one job candidate sixteen times, his opinion on early vs. late Picasso, the best reform in corporate governance, why we might see a bifurcation of the Internet, what technology will explode in the the next 10 years, the most underrated media source, and more.

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Recorded September 21st, 2018 Other ways to connect

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