Reid is the greatest host ever, he leaves the guest to freely talk, he never interrupts him and his large knowledge of the topic bring huge value to all interview. Kudo, Reid!

"The industry over values experience and under values strategic and intellectual flexibility" -- Eric

'Hire the divas, they expect a lot, the drive people hard, the are controversial, they care passionately, they drive the culture of excellence and they will drive you to that excellence.' - Eric

4:43 "what would you do differently?" Make the decisions faster and make fewer mistakes 19:39 the greatest product are for the people who are building 21:32 scaling: think of it as a funnel: it's very tight (building up a product that scales), and then you can explode 26:00 the industry overvalues experience and undervalues strategic and intellectual flexibility 46:04 what not to do? Surprisingly no -- don't narrow your focus. Al sides starts with doing one thing really well, but it's easier to recruit with a broad vision 56:44 hire ridiculously smart people. They just have to have a path to what they're trying to create

Story time with Eric, never gets old. Fantastic.

This guy is a fantastic mentor, modest, calm headed, rational & methodical.

"All success starts from doing one thing really really well" - Eric Schmidt

Watching this from Nairobi in 2018.. One of the best videos i've come across.. love how you guys tackle the actual issues rather than talking of the high level stuff.. Thank you Ried and Eric

love his brutal honesty without ego lol really worth listening what he has to say in this interview

"The greatest products have almost always have been designed for the benefit of the people using them" - Eric. Goes to say that the best products are those that solve a personal problem.

- the way you build great products, is you have small teams, with strong leaders, who obsess over trade-offs and they push things off, and they say we have got to get it done, they put a lot of pressure on the team, they work all night, and produce a product that just barely works. Then they iterate.

Google is an advertising company with hobbies. The founders sound like children... it's amazing they've become so successful.

1:17 ~ "All of the solutions wouldn't get us to the autonomy of Berkshire Hathaway" Very interesting. Interesting to see they studied really only one scenario, but very insightful.

Thanks Eric and the interviewer. Great stimulating conversation.

I love how self-aware and low-ego he is. Great leader.

“Thursday was a no meeting day. Which meant we were always in meetings.” Fairly humorous corporate joke. Nobody caught it

He's so good at the self deprecating humor.

"We want more empowered people...." - Reid Hoffman

Reid, great series! I'd love to see an updated 2020 series of this or "the next level". One of the best series on KZfaq.

One of the best talks ever. Candid.

Two of the greatest minds in human history coming together. Stunning conversation

So many good nuggets in here; my head hurts from listening to this

Thanks Reid and Eric Schmidt. Love your work!

16:30 - They just needed a professional parent to tell them "no" enough times to make it challenging to prove wrong. That's why this guy is CEO. He's smart but these youngsters need a dad to rebel against and prove wrong. lol

“Never stop hiring engineers.”

I just love listening to people who understand product.. It's so hard to wrap your head around culture and all other high level stuff if you do not have a product that works..These are some of the brightest CEOs

Maybe one of the best interviews I have ever heard

wonderful talk Eric! 🎇

This channel is fantastic!

@48.26 - its called an Andon. Andon (Japanese: アンドン or あんどん or 行灯) is a manufacturing term referring to a system to notify management, maintenance, and other workers of a quality or process problem.

One smart guy.

I met this guy in Bangalore when he was CEO of Novell

Just wow interview.. LOVED it totally

This channel is gold

Great talk. Lots of well-earned wisdom in there. Although Eric tends to wrap everything in an air of arrogance, he’s a good guy. I remember him back in the 80s when he was starting out as a PM at Sun. the “Java manoeuvre” was rather clever but he did get rather lucky with it.

What a masterclass in tech management! Thank you

55:28 56:47 Odd cases in hiring. If they’ve got a path, give them a chance. Great story!

Really interesting talk! Wrote down tons of notes for my self

What a gem of an interview. This guy is beyond intelligent

More human beings, means more ad clicking customers ..Eric Schmidt! This sums it all. I feel sorry for us! I feel sorry for the huddled masses who are not smart, passionate and studied at a "prestigious university" .. This video changed the way I see Google, its the heart of greedy Corporate America. We are billions of beautiful hearts And you sold us down the river too far What about us? What about all the times you said you had the answers?

Humble, smart , visionnaire , wealthy ...

I love how Eric is working as an advisor to Chainlink now. It’s the backbone of Web3 and crypto the same way Google was the backbone of the web in the early days of search and social media.

What a time to be alive

When you expand, expand quickly and wide

7:15 "Same backgrounds" Yea, this is one key point to take from this, usually people will just hire the person most familiar to their own experience and path, see this reguluarly in tech.

What did he mean by the statistical measure at 33:16 "look at the average weight of the scorers and correlate that with the future performance of their scoring"?

You know what's kind of nice is that you actually do see someone shining right under this guy. He's under a whole lot of stuff, and you still see this guy shining through. I feel like this is really similar to how Google works. Like it's bogged down by a bunch of shit that tech is and all that, but in the end, there's still something nice about it. I like my phone, I like it's UI for the most part, and I sure as hell like KZfaq (now). I mean, at this point, I'm full on with Google over Microsoft. I go with AWS as well, and run all my stuff on Linux.

Leader and team work = efficient + confident = smart decision = success

Just so rational like a well written software code.

Excellent! Thanks for sharing

The blackberry story discussed at 36:55 is a situation ripped straight out of a chapter in Freakonomics. Or am I thinking of Predictably Irrational?

@Greylock, what is the full name of the person who were needing "10000 machines" and "solve general knowledge by the weekend"?

Come here to find sleep, can't stop watching

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Those students are so lucky to be in the presence of these two! Both billionaires!!

Great job!

y’all really need to see him and thiel interview with fortune!

47:24 What was the Japanese concept he talked about? Where any employee can stop the production line? Kanban? Combine?

ultracool - very nice Eric

I dislike videos that disable comments. Don't particularly feel like spending the time to audit this one, but thank you for enabling comments.

I still do not understand how the 'glue people' are worth firing? Please explain. Plus, can non-coders, non-tech people benefit from APM?

54:40 Noam did end up contributing heavily to the current LLM progress and AI with the Transformer architecture

"You only go bankrupt once." Except, Dave Ramsey and the countless others.

Where is the part of lesser university?

experience is what you get with time. it is absurd to ask a young applicant for it. therefore I have higher expectations of them knowing the theory better than the older applicants with experience. you need to take a chance with either

I went to school and was friends with an Eric Schmidt. Not the same on of course. He is my age 52.

22:04 !! SCALING DONE RIGHTTT!!!

Who is Nome (the person who will invent the general AI) that Eric is talking about, can anyone please tell the full name of the person?

Love Eric

look how hard he grips thr mic

What does he mean by glue people? Wish there was more elaboration on that.

He is wicked smart

Who is the gnome person that he is talking about at 56:00.

No surprise Larry and Sergei loved the predictive analytics tools that these kids were building .. lol

As a German I first saw Blitzkrieg.

Considering how straight, powerful and insightful no-bull talk Eric gives, I can't quite understand the latest SJW controversies in Google. Like people can't express their opinions anymore without getting fired. This bugs me. Anyone? Help me understand what's going on?

"we didnt want people from lesser colleges only prestigious ones with 4.0 gpa" Yeah im pretty sure there were alot of steve jobs you missed out on during the hiring process.

A CEO that google deserves

6:00 How Google started

What makes me not make this decision earlier!? 🤩

What a fucking great CEO!

A really good counter-example to Schmidt's leadership style is a guy like Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg is so young and managing the entire world at an extraordinarily young age, and more than likely his growth is going to be extremely blunted because he's had to manage more than he could handle. He didn't grow into his career and "cook", so to speak, like these other guys have who've been around for 40 years. Schmidt manages the 2nd? 3rd? biggest company in the entire world, is massively wealthy, and communicates fluidly like a layperson. Zuckerberg, who manages ... well... nothing we really care about, acts like he's the king of the world and talks like a robot. Nobody likes him (really) and when you're the front person for a massive company, you *have* to be LIKEABLE. Because that's how you sell a company. If you can't sell the company, what's it even matter?

1:16:15 51:10 36:53 37:33 15:40

Can anyone tell me who Noam is (~54:30)?

One of the best speakers. When he said "shit" I knew I'd love him. I can't remember the last time I didn't curse on a job interview. Only one job offer I didn't get out of like 10 (some people are lame ). Cussing is REQUIRED

Maciej Stuhr?

The last quarter is key; alphaBET is going to be an excellent long term investment, mark my words.

Armpit net: show how rules, soreng posibilities without advance upon.

Eric is an investor in Uber ?

Interviewer: "So people might not have actually known that *before* you worked at Google, you might have had a substantial career" Schmidt's Brain Alien: "ARE YOU SENDING ME MORE SLAVES"

My manager hired all his friends. 90% of team are his puppets now. It's the biggest we allowed to happen in the first place. Be careful and tread careful people. Rise against the culprits and burn them down.

imagine working at a place, where you can get fired because stock holders don't like your last name

Did they not fire thousands because of too much hiring

Wow

Never means : (en acento de productos diligentes, internet revela la facinaciones dónde el internet repite el caso el cual incrementa no atravez de su logro si no de lo que no se obtuvo) nobel ligths up.

Good

> chaingang of 23yro ooft, a metaphor for a neofeudal society right there

15:35 Story of Chrome

John just left Waymo.

And that guy who invented Chrome is now the CEO of Google