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My first office at Google was an 8x-by-12 office, just enough room for me and my desk and my

little chair. And one day I walked in and I find I have a roommate.

He said, hello.

And he says, hello.

I said, hi, I'm Eric.

And he goes, hi, I'm a meet.

That's Eric Schmidt.

This story happened on his first day as Google CEO in 2001.

Now, as a new person coming to the company, it's very important to not create a cultural faux pa. Like, it would be incorrect to say, I'm the CEO, get the heck out of my office. I looked at my secretary and said, did you do anything about this? She said, no. And I said, well, who said you could move in? And he said, the VP of Engineering. And I said, ah, they're playing a joke on me. And I said, well, why did you move here? Well, because I was in a six-person office who was very crowded and your office was empty. So we became colleagues. So was Amid playing a joke on Eric? Oddly enough, Eric doesn't say. He drops the investigation. Omead offers no further explanation. They settle under the work and do a fine job of ignoring one another. He would put his headphones on and I would talk on the phone. I'm calling the vice president of sales. And at the time, the revenue was estimated at about 120. And I said, don't you think you could do better? And he said, well, I think we can get to 123, 124. Well, come on, push harder, push harder. And as I hang up the phone, I mean, takes his headphones off, and said, well, I can tell you what the revenue is going to be. And I said, I knew you were listening into my conversations. And so I said, what's the revenue going to be? He said, it's going to be 138.

I said, how do you know that?

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