Google Chairman Eric Schmidt is the anti-Apple. He’s square where Apple is cool, he’s a sputtering doofus where Apple is collected, and he’s prone to hyperbole whereas Apple tends to undersell its products. For example, Schmidt said in 2013 that Android was more secure than the iPhone (LOL).
Given all that, who do you think Schmidt’s personal hero is? Boutros Boutros-Ghali? Shocker! Wrong. It’s Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, naturally. Not that many of those lessons have rubbed off on him, mind you.
Google’s Eric Schmidt says Steve Jobs is his personal hero
In a recent interview with former Google Senior VP Jonathan Rosenberg at a Silicon Valley event organized by the Commonwealth Club of California, Schmidt was quick to name his personal hero.
“For me, it’s easy: Steve Jobs,” Schmidt said.
Why?
“I had the privilege of knowing him, working with him, serving on the Apple Board,” Schmidt said. “And when I look at what he achieved in terms of impact on society, we could all aspire to be a small percentage of Steve.”
For me, that claim is laughable. But what do you think? Does Schmidt act like a man who aspires to be Steve Jobs? Let us know in the comments. (You can watch the full interview below.)
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John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
4 responses to “Google’s Eric Schmidt says Steve Jobs is his personal hero (LOL)”
u sound like an idiot LOL
but i guess everyone needs a job and instead of writing something useful for this site u WRITE dumb hate
i have no problem hating garbage like U
so listen up cause I’m pretty sure you would still have a hateful post if he didn’t say it was steve jobs
quit being whiny trash and do actual work like this man is
u can have someone be your hero without copying them exactly
he has a world successful company under him he makes millions while I’m sure u don’t
he is his own person and he looks up to another successful person as in them being successful and hard working
ur not , look up to both of them as your heroes if that will get u to make a post that isn’t a waste of everyones time
THANKS
Of course he is his hero – thanks to Steve, he was able to change Android from a Blackberry knockoff to a much more successful iPhone knockoff!
Android an IPhone knock off? Maybe back in the day. Don’t get me wrong I loved my IPhone 5, but Apple has fallen behind in the game. The IPhone needs Android to innovate more then Android needs the IPhone to set design. The 5s, 5c, 6, and 6+ have been boring. I’m waiting for Apple to come up with the WOW factor again rather then copying over most of the Android/Windows Phone/BB OS features. If they manage to that they will have me as a customer again. The old Apple we use to know is gone.
Eric Schmidt is the poster child definition of someone who will say anything to achieve their goals. Wasn’t he the one Steve Jobs sat down with and told that Android is stealing Apple’s iPhone ideas and that if he proceeded, it would be war? At the time Eric was already on the board of Apple and had plenty of “insider” information on where Apple was going. Strange how Android began to look like the iPhone so quickly…