According to interviews in Bloomberg’s documentary series, Game Changers, that’s who the two boywonders wanted as their boss. At the time, Sergey and Larry had interviewed some 12-13 candidates to become CEO of Google but didn’t like any of ‘em. Instead they wanted Jobs, their quote-unquote hero, to be the CEO. Unfortunately Jobs was busy running some other company that was about to embark on a renaissance for the ages.
The Google dudes ended up finding and picking Eric Schmidt who interestingly doesn’t really resemble Jobs at all. And the rest, as they say, is history. Both companies went on to become wildly successful, Apple made the iPhone, Google made Android and now they all hate each other. What a fairy tale. [Bloomberg's Game Changers via Pocket-Lint]
matt
Monday, November 1, 2010 at 11:11 AMthank GOD they went with someone else…
can you imagine if Google was as controlling and addicted to money as Apple??
zahli
Monday, November 1, 2010 at 1:07 PMhehe, i wonder what android would’ve turned out like if he had joined google instead.
andronicus
Monday, November 1, 2010 at 2:01 PMi dont see it as a bad thing. wouldve been different though. one does hardware well, one does software well. wouldve been interesting
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Monday, November 1, 2010 at 4:04 PMGoogle’s website should disclose the true origin of the word “google”. See Oxford Universal Dictionary, 1955 edition, p. 813, origin of “google” traced to 1904 via trunk word “googly”, see definition of “google” under trunk word “googly” …. “google” p. 813 —- an old cricket term “(the action of) an off-break ball bowled with leg-break action”.
a scan of p.813 will be emailed to any person so requesting, contact 4714026@optonline.net
Steve
Monday, November 1, 2010 at 10:26 PMAs much as I love Android and all of the Google services I use for FREE, Eric Schmidt is just as much the businessman as Jobs. He’s just the bank who handles the money side so the other Google staff can do what we love.