Eric Schmidt

This article is about the computer scientist Eric Schmidt. See also: Erik Schmidt , Eric Schmitt .

Eric Schmidt (2005)

Eric Schmidt (r.) During an interview with Gary Hamel

Eric Emerson Schmidt (born April 27, 1955 in Washington, DC ) is an American computer scientist and manager and was Executive Chairman (previously Chief Executive Officer ) of Google from April 2011 to August 10, 2015 . As part of the restructuring of Google, Schmidt then moved to Alphabet Inc. as Executive Chairman until he left it in 2020. Before that, he worked from 1983 to 1997 as CTO at Sun Microsystems , from 1997 to 2001 CEO at Novell and from 2006 to 2009 a member of the board of directors at Apple .

From 2009, Schmidt was part of the then US President Barack Obama's team of advisors on technology issues and teaches at Stanford University .

Life

Eric Emerson Schmidt was born in Washington, DC , according to other sources in the neighboring Falls Church - as one of three children of the psychologist Eleanor and the German-American economics professor Wilson Schmidt, who taught at Johns Hopkins University . He grew up in Blacksburg, Virginia and Falls Church. He attended Yorktown High School in Arlington , where he received several awards as a long-distance runner. Schmidt holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University, as well as a Masters and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley . As an intern at Bell Laboratories , he wrote a new version of Lex in 1976 .

Early in his career he worked in the research department at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Bell Laboratories and Zilog . In 1983 he headed the technical department at Sun Microsystems and was CTO. In 1997 he went to Novell where he was CEO. He left the company in June 2001 after Novell took over Cambridge Technology Partners .

Since then he has taken care of Google as Chairman of the Executive Committee and Chief Executive Officer (according to the company) "to set up the company infrastructure to continue the rapid growth of Google, as well as to maintain consistently high quality with the shortest possible product development cycles". With Larry Page and Sergey Brin , he was responsible for day-to-day business operations. He holds almost ten percent of the voting rights. On April 4, 2011 Schmidt moved to the board of directors of Google. After the company was reorganized, he served on the board of Alphabet Inc.

Schmidt during the 54th MSC 2018

He is leaving this position on June 19, 2019 in order to pursue academic and philanthropic goals.
Schmidt also chairs the Defense Innovation Board , which was founded in 2016 to advance high-tech deployment in the U.S. military.

From August 2006 to August 2009, Schmidt was also a member of the Board of Directors at Apple . He left the position due to the company's conflict of interest with Google.

In 2006 he and his wife Wendy founded the Schmidt Family Foundation - a private foundation that deals with questions of sustainability and the responsible use of natural resources.

In 2008 he supported Barack Obama in the US presidential election campaign. However, he declined the offer to work as Chief Technical Officer on the government team, citing his current position at Google.

He lived with his wife, Wendy, in Atherton, California near Google's Mountain View headquarters . The separation took place in 2011.

They had two daughters, Sophie and Alison. Alison died in 2017 after a long illness.

From June 11 to 14, 2015, Schmidt took part in the 63rd Bilderberg Conference in Telfs- Buchen, Austria .

Quote

Schmidt's statement in 2009 during a CNBC interview on Google's attitude towards user data protection is famous :

"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."

"If you want someone not to know something [about you], you'd better not do it [online] at all."

- Eric Schmidt : gawker.com

Awards

• September 23, 2014 Anti-Defamation League ADL International Leadership Award for doing business as a board member of Google Inc. together with the ADL Distinguished Statesman Award Shimon Peres from Abraham Foxman in connection with the ADL Best Practices for Responding to Cyberhate
• In 2006 Schmidt was elected to the National Academy of Engineering , which recognized his work on "Developing Strategies for the World's Most Successful Internet Search Engine Company".
• In 2007 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
• In 2015, Schmidt ranked 137th in Forbes' list of the richest people in the world with an estimated net worth of $ 9.7 billion.

Publications

• with Jared Cohen : The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business , 2013
• Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Alan Eagle: How Google Works. Grand Central Publishing, New York 2014, ISBN 978-1-4555-8234-1 .
  • German translation: How Google Ticks. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-593-50216-8 . (With a foreword by Larry Page )

literature

• Eric E. Schmidt , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 19/2011 from May 10, 2011, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Web links

Commons : Eric E. Schmidt  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Wikiquote: Eric Schmidt  - Quotes

• Roland Lindner: Portrait: Google boss Eric Schmidt: The webmaster. In: FAZ. July 30, 2006, accessed April 28, 2009 . 
• David Rowan: The unstoppable Google. In: Wired UK. June 30, 2009. Retrieved January 3, 2009 . 
• My religion is openness. Interview with Eric Schmidt by Joachim Müller-Jung and Holger Schmidt. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. September 9, 2010, p. 31 (features) , accessed December 22, 2017 . 

Individual evidence

1. ^ Google's view on the future of business. An interview with CEO Eric Schmidt. In: The McKinsey Quarterly.
2. ^ G is for Google. In: googleblog.blogspot.de. Retrieved August 11, 2015 . 
3. ^ Richard Nieva: Eric Schmidt, who led Google's transformation into a tech giant, has left the company. Accessed July 31, 2020 (English). 
4. ↑ Jens Ihlenfeld: Craig Mundie and Eric Schmidt advise Obama. In: Golem.de. April 28, 2009. Retrieved April 28, 2009 . 
5. ↑ Google founders reduce company shares. In: Tagesschau.de. January 23, 2010; Archived from the original on January 26, 2010 ; Retrieved January 23, 2010 . 
6. ^ Alphabet Appoints Robin L. Washington to its Board of Directors. In: heise online. May 2, 2019, accessed May 2, 2019 . 
7. ^ Google Is Quietly Providing AI Technology for Drone Strike Targeting Project. In: The Intercept. March 6, 2018, accessed March 7, 2018 . 
8. ↑ Dr. Eric Schmidt Resigns from Apple's Board of Directors. In: Apple.com. August 3, 2009, accessed August 3, 2009 . 
9. ↑ THESCHMIDT.ORG. Retrieved November 2, 2018 . 
10. ^ Eric Schmidt: Is the executive chairman of Google really the arrogant . In: The Independent . ( independent.co.uk [accessed November 2, 2018]).
11. ^ Sweet music for Google boss . In: Page Six . September 3, 2012 ( pagesix.com [accessed November 2, 2018]).
12. ↑ Inside Google Chairman Eric Schmidt's Lavish Sex Palace . In: Intelligencer . ( nymag.com [accessed November 2, 2018]).
13. ^ Carole Cadwalladr: The great British Brexit robbery: how our democracy was hijacked. In: theguardian.com , May 7, 2017.
14. ↑ Eric Schmidt's daughter Alison dead after a long illness . In: SiliconBeat . June 9, 2017 ( siliconbeat.com [accessed November 2, 2018]).
15. ↑ Ryan Tate: Google CEO: Secrets Are for Filthy People. In: Gawker.com. April 12, 2009. Retrieved December 22, 2017 . 
16. ↑ ADL Honors 9th Israeli President Shimon Peres and Google Chairman Eric Schmidt with its Highest Honors. In: Anti-Defamation League. Retrieved December 22, 2017 . 
17. ^ ADL Releases "Best Practices" for Challenging Cyberhate. In: Anti-Defamation League. Retrieved December 22, 2017 . 
18. ↑ Eric Schmidt. In: Forbes.com. October 2015, accessed October 1, 2015 . 
19. ↑ Review: Stefan Schulz: The time of managers is over. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . September 27, 2014, p. 10.