Google’s Eric Schmidt On Privacy, Politics and Facebook

At the first D9 session, Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt talked about Facebook, privacy and politics.

Eric Schmidt

Executive Chairman
Google

Schmidt's decade at Google has been a busy one. Since joining in 2001, the company has grown from a Silicon Valley start-up to a household name across the globe. As executive chairman, he is responsible for the external matters of Google: building partnerships and broader business relationships, government outreach and technology thought leadership, as well as advising the CEO and senior leadership on business and policy issues. He has long been viewed as "the adult supervision" at the company, a role that – thank goodness – apparently includes speaking at conferences. Prior to joining Google, Eric was the chairman and CEO of Novell, chief technology officer at Sun Microsystems, and served on the research staff at Xerox PARC, Bell Labs and Zilog. He holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Princeton as well as a master's and Ph.D. in computer science from UC Berkeley.

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