Eric Schmidt
the former google architect quietly builds rockets at relativity space while his name keeps surfacing in political theater
Eric Emerson Schmidt (born April 27, 1955) is an American businessman and former computer engineer who was the chief executive officer of Google from 2001 to 2011 and the company's executive chairman from 2011 to 2015. He also was the executive chairman of parent company Alphabet Inc. from 2015 to 2017, and technica… wikipedia →
12-month trajectory
interviews & talks
The AI Revolution Is Underhyped | Eric Schmidt | TED
Eric Schmidt: Google | Lex Fridman Podcast #8
The Future Of AI, According To Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt
Eric Schmidt: Are We Ready for Superintelligence? | Podcast | In Good Company
Ex-Google CEO WARNS: Humanity Is Not Ready for What's Coming In 2 Years
recent news
china ai race
- Fmr Google CEO: China Just 6 Months Behind US on AI - Newsmax
- Ex-Google CEO: China is 6 months behind US on AI and has ‘infinite energy’ - The Hill
- Former Google CEO Warns China Trails US by Just 6 Months in AI Race - Android Headlines
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anthropic investment stake
- Eric Schmidt’s path to a $20 billion Anthropic windfall began with an introduction from Cami Clark - Fortune
- Eric Schmidt reportedly owns about half as much of Anthropic as CEO Dario Amodei - TechCrunch
- Watch Eric Schmidt’s Early Anthropic Bet Set to Pay Huge Windfall - Bloomberg
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ai job impact
- Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt Says AI Could Eliminate 20% of Jobs at Large Companies - Yahoo Finance
- Ex–Google CEO Eric Schmidt worked 60-hour weeks—but he says AI will kill that burden - Fortune
- Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt broke down how he sees AI agents changing C-suite jobs - Business Insider
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california wealth tax
- Silicon Valley's billionaires unite in $333 million war against California wealth tax - Ynetnews
- Who Are the Billionaires Behind the $304 Million Effort To Defeat California’s Wealth Tax? - ScheerPost
- Inside the Billionaires’ War Against California’s Proposed Wealth Tax - The New York Times
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ai capabilities insights
- MIT affiliates named 2026 Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Fellows - MIT News
- Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt calls OpenAI and Anthropic modern colonial trading companies - The Decoder
- Eric Schmidt Rejects AI Bubble Fears, Says Anthropic Is Growing Twice as Fast as Google Did - Yahoo Finance
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commencement speech
- Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt booed after AI remarks at Arizona commencement - The Guardian
- Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt booed by graduates at mention of AI - BBC
- Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt booed during graduation speech about AI - NBC News
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space technology ventures
personal background
- In 2009, Google's Eric Schmidt and wife Wendy bought a former fisheries ship; by 2022, the vessel offered - The Times of India
- You’ve heard from my husband, Eric Schmidt, about AI; here’s my take - San Francisco Chronicle
- Eric and Wendy Schmidt Hall groundbreaking marks defining moment for Princeton computer science - Princeton University
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warfare ai applications
other
- Eric Schmidt reveals his biggest failure as Google CEO: There was a moment when Google was ahead of every - The Times of India
- Commentary: Eric Schmitt’s Hawks-Hawkeyes blunder and the politician he’s become - Missouri Independent
- Opinion | Silicon Valley Is Drifting Out of Touch With the Rest of America (Published 2025) - The New York Times
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