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How Many Times Can Eric Schmidt Stick His Foot in His Mouth?
The ex-Google CEO/executive chairman was off the chain at Stanford
Unless you have been living under a rock in the tech world — you have heard of the crazy unscripted talk called “The Age of AI” the ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt gave at Stanford.
Stanford’s video clip has been made private (aka removed) from YouTube, and only the transcript and a backup copy of the conversation remain on Twitter.
Let’s see what revelations were made at this dumpster fire of a talk.
Screw winning — we want a life
According to Eric, Google was getting its butt kicked by OpenAI in artificial intelligence because their employees actually wanted to see their families.
Google decided that work life balance and going home early and working from home was more important than winning…
And I’m sorry to be so blunt, but the fact of the matter is if you all leave the university and go found a company, you’re not going to let people work from home and only come in one day a week. — Eric Schmidt
Then he continued down this path by torching his old company, Google, by praising startups (Google HQ used to be a garage in Menlo Park).
