Google CEO Eric Schmidt might be the next U.S. Commerce Secretary
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Google's Eric Schmidt will be handing the CEO reigns over to Larry Page, one of Google's co-founders. While Larry Page and Sergey Brin are the engineering minds behind Google, Schmidt provides the business acumen. And that's why he's being considered for the Commerce Secretary position.
The U.S. government has a long history of appointing successful CEOs to the position. Meredith Broadbent of the Center for Strategic and International Studies explains that with an executive, "you get the management experience, and you get an understanding of a large complex organization that is active globally."
After leading Google for the past 10 years, and proving his ability to innovate and excel, we look forward to the possibility of seeing him as our U.S. Secretary of Commerce. But he will still face competition from the current U.S. Trade Representative, Ron Kirk; and the former Pfizer CEO, Jeffrey Kindler.
source: Businessweek via Forbes
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8 Comments
1. clevername posted on 10 Mar 2011, 01:56 2 0
The first step to google world domination!! Google for ...erm, Eric Schmidt for president 2016!
2. samirsshah posted on 10 Mar 2011, 04:33 1 1
As an Indian I welcome it. Google and Eric Schmidt knew importance of India early on. Bill Gates also knew importance of India but, I am sorry to say, Steve Ballmer is going by numbers and has put India on a back burner. Believe me, as an Indian you know when you are brushed aside.
7. iHateCrapple posted on 10 Mar 2011, 14:43 1 0
No offense but us Americans know when we get brushed aside as well...
END OUTSOURCING!!
8. downphoenix posted on 10 Mar 2011, 21:41 1 0
Amen to this, but given how anti-competitive our country has been, its understandable for these mega corporations to want to take their business elsewhere, they are in it for the money after all.
3. snowgator posted on 10 Mar 2011, 06:30 1 3
I welcome any representitive of the free market/world economy into our goverment. Can only help.
4. nancyfuqindrew posted on 10 Mar 2011, 09:17 1 0
Because god knows the free market is totally underrepresented by the government.
5. evenly mismatched (unregistered) posted on 10 Mar 2011, 11:53 1 0
Hmm... ok, so maybe the Google conspiracy theorists are on to something...
6. networkdood posted on 10 Mar 2011, 13:29 0 0
The FCC chairman is also being considered for the same post and he is a buddy of OBAMA.
