Eric Schmidt at Dreamforce 2011
Salesforce.com’s CEO Marc Benioff interviewed Eric Schmidt in Dreamforce 2011.
I like the interview. I personally hate Google betraying Apple to secretly start the Andriod thing. But that doesn’t change the fact that Eric is one of the smartest executives in the Valley.
It is insightful to me in many parts where Marc asked Eric to relate his past experience and look into the future tech landscape. He made some detail analysis to how cloud computing, as a technology, has enabled all sorts of innovation that cannot happen just 10 years ago.
Things like small agile team building very scalable products like 4sq, Angrybirds, etc. And how some companies (like Apple and Google) succeeds and why some (namely, Microsoft) failed. Very intriguing.
In the course of this interview, he showed great respect to companies building simple yet technically complex products. And, in detail, analyzed why Microsoft fails in recent years – “Microsoft was built around the model of control and licensing… They do not organize around the consumers. They organize around the industry structure… And, Apple proves, if you organize around the consumers, the rest will follow…”
There’s more in the interview… his advice to America, what are the characters to exceed Mark Zuckerberg to be the next new star… Check the interview. (But skip the first 3, 5 mins of boring flattery intro crap)
