Eric E. Schmidt

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Name:	Eric E. Schmidt
Age:	54 (b. 1956)

Industries:

Internet | Telecom

2008 Compensation:

$508,764

Roles:

Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer: Google Inc.

Chm & CEO, Board of Directors: Google-Dallas

Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin recruited Eric Schmidt from Novell, where he led that company's strategic planning, management and technology development as chairman and CEO. Since coming to Google, Eric has focused on building the corporate infrastructure needed to maintain Google's rapid growth as a company and on ensuring that quality remains high while product development cycle times are kept to a minimum.

Along with Larry and Sergey, Eric shares responsibility for Google's day-to-day operations. Eric's Novell experience culminated a 20-year record of achievement as an Internet strategist, entrepreneur and developer of great technologies. His well-seasoned perspective perfectly complements Google's needs as a young and rapidly growing search engine with a unique corporate culture.

Prior to his appointment at Novell, Eric was chief technology officer and corporate executive officer at Sun Microsystems, Inc., where he led the development of Java, Sun's platform-independent programming technology, and defined Sun's Internet software strategy.

Before joining Sun in 1983, he was a member of the research staff at the Computer Science Lab at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), and held positions at Bell Laboratories and Zilog.

Eric has a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University, and a master's and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2006, Eric was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, which recognized his work on the development of strategies for the world's most successful Internet search engine company. Eric was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as a Fellow in 2007. He is also chairman of the board of directors for the New America Foundation.

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The Cost Of YouTube – Before & After Google Acquisition ...

YouTube was in existence for 18 months before Google acquired it. And it was probably just as well the search giant did, because the burgeoning online video site was massively expensive to run, and there wasn't any sign of profit being made any time soon. Google Vs. Viacom The Google vs. Viacom legal ... - read more at Web Tv Wire

tags: Google YouTube

3/19/10:

ryangigaom

Let's say it's 2005 and online video is in its infancy. If you're a Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, how much would it cost to start up and run a video sharing site with the hopes of flipping it for more than $1.6 billion? As of this week we know, thanks to confidential Profit and loss information ... - read more at NewTeeVee

tags: Google YouTube

3/19/10:

Will Viacom's public airing of YouTube's dirty laundry change ...

By Scott M. Fulton, III, Betanews The key issue at the heart of Viacom's case against Google and YouTube, filed in March 2007, concerns whether an Internet service that probably knows that files are traded or shown illicitly or without license there, deserves the "safe harbor" provisions of the Digital ... - read more at Beta News

tags: YouTube Comcast Google

3/19/10:

Viacom and YouTube: what you need to know

By Tim Conneally, Betanews This week, documents from Viacom's billion dollar lawsuit against YouTube for copyright infringement were published, and the three-year-long-and-counting lawsuit has again been brought to the public's attention. In case you haven't been following the case, here's a quick timeline ... - read more at Beta News

tags: YouTube Viacom NBC Universal Google Microsoft MySpace CBS Corp Paramount Pictures Dailymotion Jon Stewart

3/19/10:

Viacom's YouTube Strategy: Replay "The Godfather" [MediaMemo]

Another fun (but admittedly irrelevant) nugget from the YouTube-Viacom documents: Tom Dooley, Viacom's #2, advising CEO Philippe Dauman on the best way to negotiate with Google, via a November 2006 email. Guide to players follows: I think we should cut off the heads of Adam, Michael (and perhaps Judy) ... - read more at All Things Digital

tags: YouTube Viacom Google MTV Networks Van Toffler Judy McGrath CEO Philippe Dauman Tom Dooley

3/19/10:

Palm Sold 4500 Phones Per Day: Apple? 90K. Android? 60K Per ...

The Palm Pre generated a lot of excitement as a possible iPhone-killer when it was announced in early 2009. Its start out of the gate in mid-2009 was OK but not spectactular. And, now we read that: Palm Sold Only 408,000 Smartphones Last Quarter (Silicon Alley Insider) So, how does this compare to the ... - read more at mediabistro.com: MobileContentToday

tags: Apple Google

3/18/10:

Schumpeter: Look forward in anger

Personal animosity is a mighty force in business, for good as well as illTHE third world war, it seems, has broken out in an unexpected place: Silicon Valley. Apple and Google were once so close that Eric Schmidt, Google's boss, joked that they should merge and change their name to AppleGoo. Now, however, ... - read more at The Economist

tags: Apple Google Steve Jobs Mark Anthony

3/18/10:

Apple board member Jerry York is dead

A former CFO at IBM and Chrystler and an advisor to billionaire investor Kirk Kerkorian Photo: Apple Inc. Apple (AAPL)AAPL) announced Thursday that Jerome B. York, who served on the company's board of directors since 1997, has died. He was hospitalized Wednesday after reportedly suffering a stroke. York, ... - read more at Apple 2.0 (Fortune blogs)

tags: Apple Jerry York Google (GOOG) IBM (IBM) Steve Jobs Twitter

3/18/10:

Prior to Exit, FTC Commissioner Slams Google on Privacy

We all know that it is virtually impossible for Google to keep a low profile on anything. When you are that big and influential everyone is paying attention and it seems like every time someone breaks wind at the Googleplex it's news. It's the price of fame I suppose. Of course, if you create the kind ... - read more at Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim

tags: Google Wall Street Journal

3/18/10:

Apple vs HTC: Battle for control of patents, wireless apps - ...

Has Apple CEO Steve Jobs launched an attack on CEO Eric Schmidt and Google by suing its phone supplier? Is there more at stake than touch screen patent technology? by Doug Hanchard - read more at ZDNet - Hardware

tags: Apple Google CEO Steve Jobs

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Eric E. Schmidt Insider Ownership:*

Ticker Name Price Change

GOOG Google Inc. 560.00 -6.40 (-1.13%)

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Eric E. Schmidt GOOG ownerships:

# shares	Nature of ownership	Last reported
14,535	indirect - BBy Limited Partnership II	2006-08-31
8,498	indirect - ByBy Limited Partnership I	2006-05-26
14,639	indirect - By TrBy Limited Partnership II	2006-05-26
11,848	indirect - ByLimited Partnership II	2005-12-30
11,766	indirect - By LLimited Partnership II	2005-12-30
7,411	indirect - By Limited Partnership II	2005-12-30
8,205	indirect - By Limited Partnership I	2005-11-23
1,751	indirect - By Limited Partnership III	2005-10-31
8,844	indirect - BBy Limited Partnership I	2005-09-27
507	indirect - By Limited Partership II	2005-07-29
4,914	indirect - By Limited Partership I	2005-07-29
1,052	indirect - By Limited Partnership IIBy Limited Partnership II	2005-05-26
8,046	indirect - By Limited Partnership IBy Limited Partnership I	2005-05-26