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View from the Top: Eric Schmidt : Additional Reading

 

Eric Schmidt made a move that surprised many in dot-com circles when he became chief executive officer of Google, the phenomenally successful web search engine. Google had quickly garnered a cult following for its clean interface and speedy results, and was set to become the high-tech industry's next stellar financial success. Schmidt, a veteran of computer manufacturer Sun Microsystems and Novell, the software maker, was considered the ideal visionary to guide Google into a period of growth and maturation as a business. "I see myself primarily as a technologist," Schmidt told PC World's Tom Spring in an interview posted on CNN.com. "And what's funny is that I am not primarily used as a technologist here. I'm primarily used as an executive who has run companies." More

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Google news. Fortune, 1/7/09
Metaphorically speaking, Google is killing the newspaper industry. Online news is quickly hollowing out the traditional paper.
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt Calls For Innovation Bailout. Informationweek, 11/18/08
As an adviser to President-elect Barack Obama, Schmidt tells U.S. companies to apply the technological principles that created the Internet economy to the nation's energy infrastructure.
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Eric Schmidt: Google Mission Is to 'Change the World' Wired, 6/11/08
Google CEO Eric Schmidt has a modest ambition: He just wants to change the world.
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Search Mission. Portfolio.com, 4/2008
Google's business model of internet-search-driven advertising has become so dominant that competitors Microsoft and Yahoo can hardly compete. But will C.E.O. Eric Schmidt be able to keep Google true to its roots?
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Eric Schmidt, Web 2.0 vs. Web 3.0

Eric Schmidt, New Yorker interview

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