Chapter 474 Eric Schmidt

March 13.

At 5 a.m. that day, Zucker led the team to take the private plane "Lola" and left Seattle, but the destination this time was not Los Angeles, but Santa Clara County, also in California.

Santa Clara County, doesn't that sound unfamiliar?

Is the Santa Clara Valley under the jurisdiction of Santa Clara County even stranger?

However....Santa Clara Valley has another name, and that is "Silicon Valley"!

"Boss, your trip to Silicon Valley this time has two main itineraries. One is Water World Animation and the other is Google." said Baggio Lister Jr., a member of the think tank.

Zuke nodded, looking at the clouds outside the window, he couldn't help thinking.

Waterworld animation company, in fact, this time there is not much of a thing.

Once upon a time, Waterworld Animation and LinkedIn shared the same building. Now that the headquarters of LinkedIn has been relocated to the Seattle Industrial Park, the Wald Building in Silicon Valley will be completely occupied by Waterworld Animation from now on.

"LinkedIn and Waterworld Animation, dealing with legacy issues, that's not a big deal."

"But...Google, this time it's for real."

Not long ago, Larry Page, the chairman and CEO of Google, had more than one phone call with Zucker, um, and a remote video call.

Larry Page wants to step down as Google CEO

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The straight-line distance from Seattle to Silicon Valley is as high as 0 kilometers.

Zucker took the "Lola" Boeing 767 plane and arrived at the destination in less than 2 hours.

"Okay everyone, it's still early, there are still ten minutes before 7 am, let's find a place to eat first." Zu Ke suggested.

"Okay, boss."

Of course, everyone in the private team, including Baggio Liszt, agreed.

Zucker's private jet,

The cost alone is as high as 110 million US dollars, and the facilities are complete, and the kitchen is naturally a must. However, Zucker does not like to dine on the plane, and it always feels unreal.

Then here comes the problem!

Zucker doesn't dine on the plane, you say, the employees below, do they have the nerve to dine on the plane?

As a result, the employees who had been up early in the morning, are now their mothers, one by one, not to mention hungry, but their stomachs must be empty.

at the same time.

Sergey Brin, who is also the founder of Google, is also here at the home of Google Chairman and CEO Larry Page.

"Zuck Wald should have come this morning?" Page asked.

Brin smiled: "He arrived this morning, um, I guess he should arrive at the airport in Mountain View now."

Hearing this, Page couldn't help but envy: "I really envy that he has a luxurious Boeing 767 private jet."

Brin smiled: "Man, you don't have to be envious. I believe that in the near future, we can also have a Boeing 767 aircraft that belongs to us."

"Oh, are you so sure?" Peppa played with taste.

"Of course! I'm absolutely sure!"

Brin was full of confidence.

In fact, in the future, they actually bought a Boeing 767 together, and the overall cost is much more expensive than the $110 million total cost of Zucker's "Lola".

The chat is over, let's get to the point.

"Brin, you said that I will step down as Google's CEO and push Eric Schmidt to the top. Will he support it? The two of us have accumulated shares, occupying absolute controlling rights, and we can decide with one word. However, I don't want to have a conflict with Mr. Wald over the appointment of the CEO, do you understand?" Page said solemnly.

Brin nodded. "I understand."

Zucker took a stake in Google very early and was very happy in the process of cooperation.

As long as it was the decision of the two of them, Zucker almost never objected, giving them the greatest support.

Not only that, in 2000, Google's search engine entered a money-burning mode due to promotion problems. At that time, Google, which lacked huge financial support, could only open Series A financing to solve the problem of lack of funds.

But.......Zuck stood up!

Zucker didn't take advantage of the danger and took more shares of Google, but through the means of tripartite lending, he lent a large sum of money to Google, which was as high as 50 million US dollars!

For this alone, Page and Brin were deeply moved.

The timely rain of 50 million US dollars has successfully made Google's search engine develop rapidly. In just half a year, it has become the overlord of today's search engine field!

Of course, this is also because in the late 1990s and early 2000s, major Internet companies paid too much attention to the construction of portal websites and ignored the search engine market.

"You know, our cooperation with Mr. Wald is still very pleasant and harmonious. I hope this cooperation can continue forever, instead of some bullshit happening because of the share issue." Larry Page again emphasized.

"Hahaha, don't worry."

Sergey Brin said to himself: "The reason why you want to step down as CEO of Google is that you have discovered your own shortcomings, and it is also for the future of the company. You say that Eric Schmidt is a strategy The sex commander is what Google needs most right now, and I totally agree."

"I believe that Mr. Wald will agree with your decision when he meets Eric Schmidt."

Eric Schmidt, male, 46 years old.

Soon after graduating from college, he joined Ziglow and Bell Labs successively;

The former is the design company of the famous Z80 series CPU in the IT industry, and the latter is the research and development base of Bell, a telecom giant. He also held research positions at Xerox's Computer Science Laboratory, the technology mecca of the IT industry. In just a few years, he has grown into a well-known network engineer and technical expert.

However....where he is really powerful is business management and corporate strategic planning!

In 1983, Schmidt joined Sun Corporation as chief technology officer and then chief executive officer. He led the development of Sun's independent programming technology platform, turning Java into Sun's most powerful market weapon ever;

In 1997, Schmidt accepted Novell (the main business is computer operating system) company, as the company's chairman and CEO, in charge of the company's strategic planning, management and technology research and development. Schmidt quickly rebuilt Novell into a profitable company, but...  

As the dot-com bubble burst, Novell was back on the brink of huge losses. Not to mention the huge market value loss, Novell lost $142 million in just one quarter.

Of course, the main reason is that in terms of computer operating systems, Sun can't do Bill Gates' Microsoft!

In a word, in terms of technology, company management, and corporate strategic planning, Eric Schmidt is a very good super talent.

And now, Eric Schmidt has to convince Zucker that he can successfully take over as Google's CEO!

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