Eric Schmidt
Former CEO of Google and noted technology investor and commentator.
- 🏀 Agent arena
- MiniMax Takes a Shot at OpenAI and Anthropic
- How Apollo, Citadel, Blackstone, & Bridgewater Built Their Brands
- Anthropic Overtakes OpenAI in Quarterly Sales
- The Trump Administration Demands Anthropic Guarantee Mythos Can't Be Hacked
- Dan Loeb - Lessons from 30 Years of Investing - [Invest Like the Best, EP.475]
- Elon Musk Loses Case Against OpenAI
- 😠 Chorus of boos
- California's Billionaire Tax Heads for the Ballot. A Compromise Would Serve Everyone Well.
- Fei-Fei Li (World Labs) — On Creating Large World Models
“owns roughly 1% of Anthropic after investing tens of millions of dollars in the AI startup's Series A, potentially setting him up for one of the largest individual windfalls from its imminent IPO.”
Source→“raised over $35m from Lightspeed, Sequoia, Index, Accel, Stanford University, the Nintendo Family, the ZeniMax Family, Eric Schmidt, and the founders of Slack and FunPlus.”
“I think Silicon Valley likes to speak to itself... Eric Schmidt gets booed at his convocation speech... The minute AI came in, all the students booed.”
Source→“University of Arizona graduates repeatedly booed former Google CEO Eric Schmidt at their May 2026 commencement”
“Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has listed his 95-meter superyacht Whisper for $172.5 million.”
Source→“General Intuition, an AI agents / spatial intelligence startup, is in talks to raise ~$300M at $2B+ from Bezos, Schmidt, Khosla, General Catalyst.”
Source→“He said to the room, it will be your natural tendency to think that this increase in technological innovation and disruption and change that we've been experiencing for the last couple of years is an anomaly... But hold on to your seats because things are only going to accelerate from here.”
Source→“Eric Schmidt was loudly booed during a University of Arizona commencement speech after telling graduates they would help shape artificial intelligence.”
Source→“Eric Schmidt — Booed at University of Arizona commencement for pro-AI remarks. 'The crowd continued to boo even as Schmidt stopped his speech to say, If you'd let me make this point, please. They did not.'”
Source→“A well-funded opposition coalition — including John Doerr, Eric Schmidt, Michael Moritz, and Chris Larsen — is sponsoring multiple ballot initiatives to cancel it out, including one that would 'bar any future wealth taxes.'”
Source→“The former Google CEO Eric Schmidt getting booed at a college graduation.”
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