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Great tweet from Eric Schmidt on the subject: Day-to-day adult supervision no longer needed
The link for the tweet: http://twitter.com/#!/ericschmidt/status/28196946376130560 This one was the best satirical one: Larry Page has just ousted Eric Schmidt as Mayor of Google on @foursquare. http://bit.ly/hQGNRe Link: http://twitter.com/#!/pourmecoffee/status/28198140209270784
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I just think it's funny that they probably wanted Sergey to pick a standard big company management title for the press release, like "President of Products" or similar. He went with "Co-Founder".
Any standard big-company management title other than "CEO" or "Chairman of the Board" is beneath CEO level. "Co-founder" makes it clear what his position is: power without any official duties. Pretty sweet deal.
Seems like Larry is done with CEO school, and ready to lead his company. It would have been hard to get this far without Eric Schmidt
Who knows where they might have been, it could even have been better.
(btw, Larry and Sergey bought Android without telling Eric, to give you an idea of what could have been)
Larry becoming CEO sounds like the same path that Bill Gates had. Found a company and become it's CEO. When it's time for the company to "grow up", bring in a well respected CEO who can structure the company for growth and stability while teaching the young founder. When the founder has learned the ropes he takes over again as CEO.
Gates was CEO from the beginning of Microsoft until he became Chief Software Architect prior to his retirement. Ballmer became CEO after Gates. There was never a gap between founding and CSA where someone else was CEO of MS.
I though John Shirley was the CEO for most of the 80's:)
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Leading a decade of mediocre home-grown products (save for Gmail)? EDIT: Name one hit Google product Schmidt oversaw (again, save for Gmail) that wasn't an acquisition. This is supposed to be a company of innovation. EDIT 2: I regret the use of mediocre. I'm sure the technology, like everything that comes out of Google, was top notch. Certain products though, like Buzz, Wave, and TV, and the bizarrely bifurcated-from…
Being able to execute upon acquisitions and bring them to Google-scale is nothing to scoff at. Example, Android. Despite the Gruber's of the world thinking it is an iPhone rip off, Google made the acquisition (of a very small company--the Android we know today was quite simply built by Google) in 2005. Update: Also, thought of a few... Translate, Chrome, Talk, and Reader. I'm sure there are more, definitely if you in…
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I think it needs to be the 1st of April for it to be an April fools joke, right?
For most of us, yes. If Google wants to do an April fools joke on April 4th, all they need to do is edit the index so that the top result returned for "April fools date" claims that April fools' day is April 4th.
Tried and true: founders make terrific CEOs. EDIT, Context being tech: Hastings, Ellison, Bezos, Zuckerberg, Jobs, Gates. I'd say Google was a company in the spirit of these before WorldCom, Enron and Countrywide Financial.
Except when they don't... Angelo Mozilo, Bernie Ebbers and Ken Lay (among many others) come to mind.
Me thinks Eric Schmidt will replace Steve Jobs (for now) to restore confidence in Apple when Steve steps down.