Eric Schmidt on the Life-Changing Magic of Systematizing, Scaling, and Saying "Thanks" (Live)
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🗓️ 7 November 2018
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
The son of an economist, Eric Schmidt eschewed his father’s profession, first studying architecture before settling on computer science and eventually earning a PhD. Now one of the most influential technology executives in the world, he still however credits his interest in network economies and platforms for a large part of his success.
In this live event hosted by Village Global in San Francisco, Tyler questioned Schmidt about underused management strategies, what Google learned after interviewing one job candidate sixteen times, his opinion on early vs. late Picasso, the best reform in corporate governance, why we might see a bifurcation of the Internet, what technology will explode in the the next 10 years, the most underrated media source, and more.
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Recorded September 21st, 2018
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| 0:30.0 | It's an honor to be with you, Eric. |
| 0:32.4 | Let's try doing a whirlwind tour of your career and life. |
| 0:36.4 | So between the ages 10 and 20, what did you have as a formative intellectual experience |
| 0:41.3 | that helped to make you into Eric Schmidt? |
| 0:44.0 | I wanted to be an astronaut as all the boys of my age did because this was during the moon |
| 0:48.5 | landing period. |
| 0:50.7 | My father, who you are the natural successor to, I must say, as an economist, took us to |
| 0:58.3 | Italy. |
| 0:59.3 | He grew up in Italy as a boy. |
| 1:01.6 | And this is at a time when people didn't travel the way they do today. |
| 1:04.6 | And so it was quite exotic to grow up Italian. |
| 1:08.0 | I think that really changed me. |
| 1:09.8 | So as an American, I've always thought Americans were very, very locally focused. |
| 1:13.7 | And even today in the world you all live in, we're still too locally focused and not globally |
| 1:19.0 | focused. |
| 1:20.0 | How did it influence you having a father who was a famous economist who wrote on balance |
| 1:24.4 | of payments, crises? |
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