Eric Schmidt
Technologist and former Google CEO
Eric Schmidt is an American businessman who led Google as CEO from 2001 to 2011. He has co-written books including How Google Works and The Age of AI.
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American Born 1955 in Washington, D.C., United States
About Eric Schmidt
Eric Schmidt was born in Washington, D.C. He began in software as an intern at Bell Labs, where he co-wrote Lex, a program that generates lexical analysers. He joined Sun Microsystems in 1983 and was CEO of Novell from 1997 to 2001. At Google he was CEO from 2001 to 2011 and executive chairman from 2011 to 2015. He then served as executive chairman of its parent company Alphabet until 2017. He co-founded Schmidt Futures with his wife Wendy. In 2021 he started the Special Competitive Studies Project, a non-profit initiative aimed at strengthening the United States in artificial intelligence (AI) and technology over the long term. Schmidt has co-authored the New York Times bestsellers How Google Works and Trillion Dollar Coach. In 2021 he co-wrote The Age of AI: And Our Human Future with Henry Kissinger and Daniel Huttenlocher.