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Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: belief
30 Jun 2025 Acquired Google Part I: Origins of Search
“I think Eric was acceptable to both sides. Both because he was an actual engineer and had been at Sun.”
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- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
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- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 30 Jun 2025
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Google Part I: Origins of Search
Transcript context
…Ten years later, yup. But that is for the next episode. Anyway, it was a pretty contentious process. Through all of it, 16, 17, 18 months in, finally Eric Schmidt emerges as probably the only viable candidate out there. I think Eric was acceptable to both sides. Both because he was an actual engineer and had been at Sun. He was CEO of Novell. He was a business person too. He’d been a CEO, been a CEO of a public company. Famously, he hit the Venn diagram of everything. He also went to Burning Man as did Larry and Sergey. Right.…
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