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Why Eric Schmidt Left As CEO of Google?

Posted by samzenpus on from the take-this-job-and-shove-it dept.

Edsj writes "According to The New Yorker: 'Schmidt, according to associates, lost some energy and focus after losing the China decision. At the same time, Google was becoming defensive. All of their social-network efforts had faltered. Facebook had replaced them as the hot tech company, the place vital engineers wanted to work. Complaints about Google bureaucracy intensified. Governments around the world were lobbing grenades at Google over privacy, copyright, and size issues. The “don’t be evil” brand was getting tarnished, and the founders were restive. Schmidt started to think of departing. Nudged by a board-member friend and an outside adviser that he had to re-energize himself, he decided after Labor Day that he could reboot. He couldn't.'"

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  1. Schmidt to replace Steve Jobs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You heard it here first.

    1. Re:Schmidt to replace Steve Jobs by HateBreeder · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Seeing as he is/was in apple's board of directors, that's not so far fetched.

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  2. Submitter is wrong about "don't be evil" by emurphy42 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    or at least not clearly right. Context from TFA:

    Schmidt, according to associates, lost some energy and focus after losing the China decision. At the same time, Google was becoming defensive. All of their social-network efforts had faltered. Facebook had replaced them as the hot tech company, the place vital engineers wanted to work. Complaints about Google bureaucracy intensified. Governments around the world were lobbing grenades at Google over privacy, copyright, and size issues. The “don’t be evil” brand was getting tarnished, and the founders were restive. Schmidt started to think of departing.

    This doesn't mean that Schmidt wanted to move away from "don't be evil", he may have just been worn out from trying to uphold it for as large and diverse a company as Google is.