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Eric Schmidt

software engineer, businessman, former Google CEO

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Eric Schmidt is a software engineer and businessman who served as CEO of Google during a critical period of the company's growth and expansion into new technologies. His leadership is significant because he helped establish Google as a dominant technology company and shaped many of the practices that became standard in the tech industry.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1955-04-27
Works: 29

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Five Little Carolers
O Christmas Tree
Genesis
Arduino Programming for Beginners
Coding Interview

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Acting · Falls Church, Virginia, USA

Eric Schmidt is an American businessman, best known as a former CEO of Google.

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The Thinking Game2025
Silicon Valley — Self2014

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Type: Person
Country: AT
Active from: 1874-12-22
Active to: 1939-02-11

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Eric Emerson Schmidt (born April 27, 1955) is an American businessman and former computer engineer who was the chief executive officer of Google from 2001 to 2011 and the company's executive chairman from 2011 to 2015. He also was the executive chairman of parent company Alphabet Inc. from 2015 to 2017, and technical advisor at Alphabet from 2017 to 2020. Since 2025, he has been the CEO of Relativity Space, an aerospace manufacturing company. As of 2026, he is one of the wealthiest people in the world according to Bloomberg Billionaires Index with an estimated net worth of US$64.3 billion.

As an intern at Bell Labs, Schmidt in 1975 was co-author of Lex, a software program to generate lexical analysers for the Unix computer operating system. In 1983, he joined Sun Microsystems and worked in various roles. From 1997 to 2001, he was chief executive officer (CEO) of Novell. Schmidt has been on various other boards in academia and industry, including the boards of trustees for Carnegie Mellon University, Apple, Princeton University, and the Mayo Clinic. He also owns a minority stake in the National Football League (NFL) team Washington Commanders.