Larry bought Android without telling Eric even though Eric was the CEO of Google at the time. He is a bean counter and the only form of accountability he knows is billable hours.
Eric Schmidt killed what Google could become by making it the monster it is today.
Essentially, he made it into Microsoft when it was on a trajectory to become a glorious Sun.
For decades, SUN Microsystems was a great place to work.
From SUN came some amazing technology that still lives on(ZFS anyone?).
I prefer organisations like that over organisations that’s only purpose seems to be to extract wealth from the economy, to line the pockets of the few well connected.
Wrong. Eric Schmidt might be more of a suit than Larry, but calling him a bean counter is a stretch. He is a Computer Scientist. He has written Lex[1] ffs.
P.S. re the Android story, which seems obviously exaggerated, gotta take into account that Eric has a strong incentive to deliberately distance himself from the story given his role on Apple Board of Directors at the time.
