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Published · transcript-backedEric Schmidt: belief
7 Nov 2018 Conversations with Tyler Eric Schmidt on the Life-Changing Magic of Systematizing, Scaling, and Saying "Thanks" (Live)
“I think I was the first person to meet the new president, from America. And he’s coming to New York in the next week, so I’ll see him again.”
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- Eric Schmidt
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- 7 Nov 2018
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Oh, wonderful. Your view on the Cuban economy. Is it going to take off? Or is it stuck with most of the other Caribbean economies, plus the heritage of communism and socialism? I think I was the first person to meet the new president, from America. And he’s coming to New York in the next week, so I’ll see him again. Cuba is a very poor country. They need a lot of help. We have managed to blockade them, as they call it, for 50 years, and that’s not a good thing. So I’m in favor of opening it up. I think the economy will do well if America works with Cuba. At the moment, we’re going the wrong way. You’ve been to North Korea. Most of us have not. What is it you think you might understand about the place, having been, that maybe we don’t?…
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