Farewell, Eric! As you slowly leave Google with your $5.5 billion, we'll always remember you for... for.... uh, those thingies you did so well.
Eric Schmidt: On April 4th I Will Step Down, Larry Page to be CEO
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#142Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hmm, I feel differently. My basic perception is that under his rule, Google somehow lost its focus and transitioned from the indispensable service to just a product company. Put another way, currently it is easier to live without Google that it was 10 years ago (but to be fair, I can't say if that is due or despite Schmidt's leadership).
Isn't Search pretty much the only thing Google was known for before Schmidt's tenure? Everything from Gmail to Android to Chrome to Maps to Self-driving cars has been developed whilst Schmidt was CEO. When Schmidt joined, Google was a search company. A damn good search company, but still just search. Now they're a phenomenally influential technology company, who's products affect billions of lives every day. The fact…
I agree with what you say, and I also don't want to play down Google's achievement. I just wanted to say that imho currently Google doesn't own any technology that would be truly indispensable - for any of their product, I can use competitor product without losing that much value.
Yes, 10 years ago they were "still just search," because that was the indispensable way to navigate the internet, it was a core technology. During the last five years, the focus has shifted so "just search" is not that important anymore, but Google somehow didn't evolve, but instead has been developing new and new products. And while some of them are very good, in the future they all can be replaced by the competition. Google is just not essential for the Internet anymore, or at least that's my feeling.
Re: Eric Schmidt: On April 4th I Will Step Down, Larry Page to be CEO
#143From a programmer nerd, Schmidt has the most enviable resume. The entrepreneurs admire Jobs and Gates, but Schmidt worked his way through Bell labs, PARC, managed the release of Java, was CTO of Sun, CEO of Novell, and brought google from a well executed grad school project to dominate the internet. He turned down a job with the Obama administration to be the governments CTO. He also did all that as an academic, afte…
And coauthored lex.
Re: Eric Schmidt: On April 4th I Will Step Down, Larry Page to be CEO
#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
The average includes (I think) your last 50 posts. Your karma is life-long.
is that average for discussion posts only? if so, you can submit without affecting the average as well
guess im a huge liar.See article below
http://mashable.com/2011/01/21/eric-schmidt-google-shares/
Re: Eric Schmidt: On April 4th I Will Step Down, Larry Page to be CEO
#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
You may be getting your Larrys mixed up (Page vs Ellison).
No, he's just trolling.
then why is he selling stock today then? please upvote me with the same aggressiveness you downvoted me with. thanks. He may not be going to Oracle "today", but in the next year you will see.
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#146Great tweet from Eric Schmidt on the subject: Day-to-day adult supervision no longer needed
This tweet brought to mind Sergei and Larry arriving at the unveiling of the G1 in Rollerblades and helmets, grinning like mischievous 12-year-olds only two years ago (they were running late)...
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#147Me thinks Eric Schmidt will replace Steve Jobs (for now) to restore confidence in Apple when Steve steps down.
I wholeheartedly agree with this speculation ...
Re: Eric Schmidt: On April 4th I Will Step Down, Larry Page to be CEO
#148Is looking to fill the vacancy at Apple?
Re: Eric Schmidt: On April 4th I Will Step Down, Larry Page to be CEO
#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
Isn't Search pretty much the only thing Google was known for before Schmidt's tenure? Everything from Gmail to Android to Chrome to Maps to Self-driving cars has been developed whilst Schmidt was CEO. When Schmidt joined, Google was a search company. A damn good search company, but still just search. Now they're a phenomenally influential technology company, who's products affect billions of lives every day. The fact…
I agree with what you say, and I also don't want to play down Google's achievement. I just wanted to say that imho currently Google doesn't own any technology that would be truly indispensable - for any of their product, I can use competitor product without losing that much value. Yes, 10 years ago they were "still just search," because that was the indispensable way to navigate the internet, it was a core technology…
And it's a good thing for us that this is the case. Every time we say we wish a company dominated a field (like many of us say regarding Apple or Google) we basically say we wish it to be a monopoly, or close to it. For the most part, Google has grown in search, maybe not as fast as it did in it's beginnings, but grown none-the-less. It's competitors have grown as well, and maybe that's one of the reasons it doesn't seem like it's doing such a good job : competition is stronger and the difference between search results is not the way it used to be. Again, for me, this is a good thing, and we should be so lucky, to have globally, 5 or 10 companies duking it out in each major technology field, where we currently have 2 or 3 evolving incrementally.