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2007-04-13-gooVista

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Very long, very good November 2005 interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt; uncut.

"So I project that everything I've just told you is going to break down."

The two Googles: "It's relatively easy to see how to manage international sales because sales is organized pretty much hierarchically. You have a country manager and you have somebody who runs all of Europe and somebody who runs Japan, somebody runs Asia, and we have that, and that's traditional. / Engineering, however, is done in this odd consensus way, right, unusual, and it's never been done with the kind of engineering, international engineering scale that we're proposing."

"I know this sounds really stupid but intellectuals, and I'm an intellectual, tend to sort of wander, right. Whereas the rule in the jet is if you see it, call it, because we don't have time. Jet flying is all about lack of time."