Eric Schmidt
Eric Schmidt
Eric Emerson Schmidtis an American software engineer, a businessperson, and the Executive Chairman of Alphabet, Inc...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth27 April 1955
CountryUnited States of America
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When you are serious about selling a company you approach likely buyers in a non-public manner. The history of these kinds of announcements is that they rarely lead to a definite transaction.
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We've had a pretty difficult year, ... We are six months into a process of transforming from a relatively straight-forward software company into a solutions-based company.
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The only problem they have is the high valuation, ... This company has had a lot successes, they have a great pipeline, and I think they'll have many successes over the next few years. But it's an expensive stock.
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Novell is a solidly different company today than it was one year ago,
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They have over 30 programs in the clinic, which for a company this size certainly is one of the better pipelines we've come across.
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The company isn't run for the long-term value of our shareholders but for the long-term value of our end users.
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Toolbar users are more sophisticated, use advertisers in more sophisticated ways,
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We missed some shots that normally we make and at times we were a little too unselfish and passed up some good looks.
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The size of this market is so much larger than anything we thought.
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The shots that she hit were so big. She hung us in there. She's so tough, but it takes more than one person.
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There's some cost savings here that's going to drive earnings upstream.
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Public concern over drug safety issues is waning and new drug approvals have occurred in a relatively timely and transparent fashion.
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East Grand Forks is a much improved team, most of their players returned from last year and that experience has helped them this year.
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Believe me, as a computer scientist, we have the ability to detect the invalid clicks before they reach advertisers. The attacks on us are easily detected.