Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who has since moved on to greener and perhaps more dangerous pastures, told an audience of Stanford students recently that “Google decided that work-life balance and going home early and working from home was more important than winning.” Evidently this hot take was not for wider consumption, as Stanford — which posted the video this week on YouTube — today made the video of the event private.

  • unexposedhazard
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    27 days ago

    If he has time to complain about other people, then he is probably not essential to the operation. Maybe he should be fired instead.

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      27 days ago

      He retired from his role at Google a few years ago so yeah…

      But he is still a typical C-Suite asshole. Blame workers for strategic corporate failures (Googles competition all offer WFH) and take personal credit (and bonuses) for any and all successes.

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      27 days ago

      He’s retired, hasn’t been involved with Google for years. He’s just insanely rich, and still holds billions in Google shares.