The best things in your life will come from the people that you hang out with, says tyler scmitt. He was lucky because he had good taste in friends and they help him out. The quality of the people who work for a company determine an awful lot of its outcome. Eric: corporate success is a team sport - it's not just about founders.
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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