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Google’s former CEO on why the company was caught off guard by OpenAI.
Here’s what Eric Schmidt, who was Google’s CEO from 2004 to 2011 and then chairman until 2015, had to say recently during a talk at Stanford:
Google decided that work-life balance and going home early and working from home was more important than winning. And the reason startups work is because people work like hell.
Update, August 14th: It appears that Schmidt didn’t intend for his comments to make headlines! Stanford has taken the video of his talk down, so here’s a clip that is still online:
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