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Re:Emails From Schmidt And Sergey Brin Show Agreements Not T... by lexisuseless on Sunday March 23, 2014 @07:17PM (#7455705)
Aw... Eric Schmidt. I suspect Larry and Sergey would have done a couple times better had VCs not shoved a CEO down their throats. Controlling for company trajectory vector at the time they joined, Eric Schmidt is in the ballpark of John Scully.

I never had a feeling that he's a smart guy watching him talk (in contrast with Larry and Sergey and Zuck) and I generally despise his attention-whore attitude and kissing ass in political circles.

And everyone knows not to use lex.

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Re:Emails From Schmidt And Sergey Brin Show Agreements Not T... by laureny on Monday March 24, 2014 @12:58AM (#7456799)
> Aw... Eric Schmidt. I suspect Larry and Sergey would have done a couple times better

A couple of times better than what? Being multi billionaires and leading one of the most powerful and most respected companies in the world?

Most experts agree that picking Erick Schmidt as CEO was instrumental to Google's success.

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Re:Emails From Schmidt And Sergey Brin Show Agreements Not T... by asdfologist on Sunday March 23, 2014 @07:29PM (#7455740)
Um, it says right there in the headline that Sergey was complicit in this too.
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Re:Emails From Schmidt And Sergey Brin Show Agreements Not T... by yuhong on Sunday March 23, 2014 @08:30PM (#7455938)
Read the article in more detail.
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Re:Emails From Schmidt And Sergey Brin Show Agreements Not T... by meowface on Monday March 24, 2014 @12:31AM (#7456706)
Not who you replied to, but:

Brin seemed pretty complicit in it. He didn't make the final decision to appease Jobs, but he asked for a temporary stay in recruiting Apple employees and obviously agreed with Schmidt's decision to ban all recruiting.

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Re:Emails From Schmidt And Sergey Brin Show Agreements Not T... by asdfologist on Sunday March 23, 2014 @08:39PM (#7455967)
Um, perhaps you should? The article makes no inference that Schmidt had a bigger role. In fact, the article mentions Brin more often than Schmidt.
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Re:Emails From Schmidt And Sergey Brin Show Agreements Not T... by yuhong on Sunday March 23, 2014 @08:41PM (#7455984)
"Brin appears to not know what the nature of the agreement is between the two companies."

I actually started another thread discussing this exact topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7455116

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Re:Emails From Schmidt And Sergey Brin Show Agreements Not T... by asdfologist on Sunday March 23, 2014 @08:46PM (#7456005)
I don't see your point. Ok, so Jobs talked to Schmidt before talking to Brin. Either way, Brin continued the practice and actively promoted it.
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Re:Emails From Schmidt And Sergey Brin Show Agreements Not T... by mark_l_watson on Monday March 24, 2014 @07:39PM (#7462610)
Eric has a BS in CS from Princeton, and MS + PhD in CS from Berkeley. Seems like he has an inner geek, and I would argue that he did a good job at Google.
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