21. How Can You Identify Hidden Talent? With Eric Schmidt.

No Stupid Questions

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🗓️ 4 October 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Also: is there a downside to billionaire philanthropy?

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0:00.0	After your third yacht, I mean, what are you gonna buy?
0:02.5	Ha ha ha.
0:03.8	A fourth yacht.
0:04.6	Hi.
0:05.5	I'm Angela Duckworth.
0:06.6	I'm Stephen Dovner.
0:07.6	And you're listening to No Stupid Questions.
0:11.0	Today on the show, Angela asks former Google CEO,
0:14.4	Eric Schmidt, about his quest to find the Einstein of the 21st century.
0:19.3	How can that possibly be something we shouldn't be pursuing?
0:22.7	Also, our billionaire philanthropist doing more harm than good?
0:27.0	Well, I'm not gonna go tutor anyone today because
0:30.0	didn't I hear that Eric Schmidt is giving way his money to education?
0:34.2	All right, so let's get started.
0:35.7	Eric, I'm so happy to be in conversation with you today.
0:39.3	Listeners, of course, may know you as the former CEO of Google.
0:43.8	How would you like listeners today in 2020 to identify you to know you?
0:48.6	Well, I think of myself as a computer scientist who is lucky enough to
0:52.2	eventually run a number of companies.
0:54.3	And now I'm trying to apply the principles that I've always believed in
0:57.8	to solve some societal problems.
1:00.0	It's far better to take the spoils of success and use them to advance the next generation
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