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Eric Schmidt Out, Larry Page In As Google CEO

Posted by timothy on from the as-if-you-care dept.

jfruhlinger writes "Google surprised just about everybody at its earnings call by announcing that Eric Schmidt, who had served as company CEO for more than a decade, would be stepping down and that cofounder Larry Page would take over. Schmidt will stay on as chairman and provide 'technology thought leadership,' whatever that is. When Schmidt, an old Sun hand, joined Google in 2001, it was seen as a move to turn the scrappy upstart into a mature company; now on his Twitter feed Schmidt proclaims that his 'adult supervision' is no longer needed."

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  1. yeah by Ryanrule · · Score: 2, Insightful

    startup : "dont be evil" :: mature corp : "x" solve for x

  2. Beginning of the end? by bigsexyjoe · · Score: 5, Insightful

    He says he doesn't need "adult supervision" anymore? Well the child is the worst to judge these things.

    If Schmidt is such a good CEO, why change the setup? Page just thinks he'd be a better CEO because it is human nature to believe such things. I think this is an ego driven move and it could turn out very badly. At least they are keeping Schmidt on in a high level role.

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    1. Re:Beginning of the end? by alvinrod · · Score: 5, Insightful

      The probably dropped him as CEO because he just comes off as creepy and not giving a damn about privacy; and this from the CEO of a company that's collecting information about everything and everyone. His insights and abilities are probably appreciated, but when he's in front of a camera he ends up saying something stupid that makes Google look evil. Here's an example from the WSJ. Here's another from the Atlantic. The crap he says makes him sound like someone who's Google's enemy and trying to scaremonger the public.

    2. Re:Beginning of the end? by Lemmy+Caution · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Those are the steps of a business trying to improve morale, not the steps of a business with high morale.

  3. Hopefully Schmidt's privacy ideas leave with him by schwit1 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/09/google-mocked/

    "If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."

    "I think that over time, on the internet, there will be less anonymity. And I actually think that's good"

  4. In reality Schmidt proclaims by nurb432 · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I'm rich enough now and don't feel like working.

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  5. Re:First Jobs, now Schmidt by oatworm · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Oh, so...

    While 1
    MsgBox "Developers!", vbExclamation, "Developers!"
    Wend

    That a little more Microsofty?