Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who has since moved on to greener and maybe extra harmful pastures, informed an viewers of Stanford college students lately that “Google determined that work-life stability and going residence early and dealing from residence was extra necessary than profitable.” Evidently this sizzling take was not for wider consumption, as Stanford — which posted the video this week on YouTube — immediately made the video of the occasion personal.
It will not be shocking if it was on the behest of the expertise. “I misspoke about Google and their work hours,” mentioned Schmidt in an emailed assertion to TechCrunch. “I remorse my error.”
A number of information publications have already run headlines concerning the video, and 1.4 million individuals considered a clip of Schmidt trashing Google’s distant work practices on X.
At one other level within the video, Schmidt tells the viewers to maintain what he’s telling them personal, then acts considerably shocked when his interviewer factors out cameras within the room. At one other level, he tells the viewers that AI startups can steal IP and rent good legal professionals to wash it up later, as soon as they’ve created a profitable product. Presumably, the previous Google CEO didn’t know the complete interview could be posted on-line.
