One of the most interesting debates was between Eric Schmidt and Peter Thiel back in 2012, especially in the positions that Eric staked out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsXFwy6gG_4
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Eric Schmidt to become technical advisor to Alphabet
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Re: Eric Schmidt to become technical advisor to Alphabet
#32Is this related to #metoo?
His daughter also passed away earlier this year, it could be that he is retiring in relation to that.
Re: Eric Schmidt to become technical advisor to Alphabet
#33Bloomberg titles this quite differently:
Alphabet's Schmidt to Step Down From Executive Chairman Role
http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Alphabet-Google-Eric-...
Re: Eric Schmidt to become technical advisor to Alphabet
#34Is this related to #metoo?
For anyone wondering: there have been some rumours that Eric Schmidt has been indiscrete in the past, more specifically that he described that he had an “open marriage” and that he had relations with “exotic dancers”. As far as I can tell, there is no reason to think that his close collaborators at Google didn’t know about and discovered something unsavoury recently. More to the point, there is no reason to think his…
The only thing I can think of is the timing of this announcement is perfect if you don't want any attention drawn to it.
Keep an eye our on the news tomorrow around 4pm EST. You'll see plenty of companies dropping bad news right before the holidays. By the time everyone gets back to work, they've forgotten!
Re: Eric Schmidt to become technical advisor to Alphabet
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Cool, I always wanted our sexual culture to revert back to the puritan 1600's.
It's not a reversion, it's a continued evolution. As Dworkin noted: > Empirically speaking, sexual liberation was practiced by women on a wide scale in the sixties and it did not work: that is, it did not free women. Its purpose—it turned out—was to free men to use women without bourgeois constraints, and in that it was successful. The hippies became Reaganites and women were allowed to participate in the economy to…
Thank you, exactly this.
Re: Eric Schmidt to become technical advisor to Alphabet
#36https://www.recode.net/2017/6/13/15788892/alphabet-sharehold... Larry and Sergey have special voting shares so its their company. In this case how much does the board really matter. Sergey and Larry can do what they want.
Eric has another 5-6% of votes...
Re: Eric Schmidt to become technical advisor to Alphabet
#37Investors are seeing this as a non-event. He's still going to be around, just a much more limited capacity. More interesting is who they decide to appoint.
Who they decide to appoint will only be interesting if they appoint somebody interesting, which seems unlikely. Larry Page is still running the show, and moving from an executive chairman to a non-executive chairman will probably only mean that the board has less power than they did before. Odds are they appoint somebody politically well-connected, and that person then gets to use the "chairman of the board at alphab…
Interesting. Obama could be a good bet if he would take the job.
(Perhaps the departure was predicated on Obama agreeing in advance)
Re: Eric Schmidt to become technical advisor to Alphabet
#38What is he doing as of late? I don't really feel his presence bears too much significance for today's Google..
Re: Eric Schmidt to become technical advisor to Alphabet
#39What is he doing as of late? I don't really feel his presence bears too much significance for today's Google..
“In recent years, I’ve been spending a lot of my time on science and technology issues, and philanthropy, and I plan to expand that work.”
Re: Eric Schmidt to become technical advisor to Alphabet
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
For anyone wondering: there have been some rumours that Eric Schmidt has been indiscrete in the past, more specifically that he described that he had an “open marriage” and that he had relations with “exotic dancers”. As far as I can tell, there is no reason to think that his close collaborators at Google didn’t know about and discovered something unsavoury recently. More to the point, there is no reason to think his…
The only thing I can think of is the timing of this announcement is perfect if you don't want any attention drawn to it. Keep an eye our on the news tomorrow around 4pm EST. You'll see plenty of companies dropping bad news right before the holidays. By the time everyone gets back to work, they've forgotten!
Papa Johns CEO is stepping down as well as of Jan 1 2018