Eric Schmidt

I want it to be America.

That's Eric Schmidt, longtime leader at Google and advisor to the U.S. government, talking to me live at the Masters of Scale Summit in San Francisco just a few days ago.

Eric Schmidt has singular insights into the critical AI race between the U.S. and China, with high-level contacts both in Silicon Valley and across Chinese government and industry.

This episode is part of a special series of high-impact episodes from the Summit stage that we'll be sharing.

So let's get to it.

He helped build the US government's approach to AI and national security.

and has been vocal about what's at stake in the tech competition between the U.S. and China.

So please welcome investor, advocate, and current CEO of Relativity Space, Eric Schmidt.

Who stands to benefit from the company going public? Of course, initial investors have a ton to gain here.

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt invested early in Anthropix Series A back in 2021 and now reportedly owns about 1% of the company.

And VCs like Menlo Ventures, Sequoia, and Spark Capital were also early investors.

Yeah, and of course, anthropic employees are also big potential winners.

Khanna recalled that when he was growing up, people like Steve Jobs and Lee Iacocca were seen as heroes, but now tech barons and other business leaders are widely loathed.

Eric Schmidt's getting booed at commencements, he said of the former chief executive of Google.

In his view, The wealth tax, a one-time 5% fee on total worldwide assets, is modest and a small price to pay if it helps blunt some of the rage directed at billionaires.

Khanna's message to them was simple.

He purchased a $42 million mansion in Incline Village, Nevada.

Brin also began organizing an effort to defeat Proposition 40.

He enlisted the support of other billionaires, among them Michael Moritz, Eric Schmidt, and John Doerr, and helped start a non-profit called Building a Better California, which has now turned a firehose of money against Proposition 40.

Building a Better California is pursuing a multi-pronged strategy.

Khanna recalled that when he was growing up, people like Steve Jobs and Lee Iacocca were seen as heroes, but now tech barons and other business leaders are widely loathed.

Eric Schmidt's getting booed at commencements, he said of the former chief executive of Google.

In his view, The wealth tax, a one-time 5% fee on total worldwide assets, is modest and a small price to pay if it helps blunt some of the rage directed at billionaires.

Khanna's message to them was simple.

He purchased a $42 million mansion in Incline Village, Nevada.

Brin also began organizing an effort to defeat Proposition 40.

He enlisted the support of other billionaires, among them Michael Moritz, Eric Schmidt, and John Doerr, and helped start a non-profit called Building a Better California, which has now turned a firehose of money against Proposition 40.

Building a Better California is pursuing a multi-pronged strategy.

And that that makes it hard for them to justify, you know, the their animosity towards Jack Smith's and other, you know, what they consider to be Democratic figures that are just, you know, Jack Smith was.

And of course, when you have the Eric Schmidt in.

You are the you're going to go down as the biggest dirtbag of the 21st century.

And then it bounces off and hits Eric Schmidt in the balls.

You know, it's like, no, he was actually a basketball.

Yeah.

He then spent three years as a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council working on AI policy, especially with U.S. and China relations.

In that role, he was a consulting editor for the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, chaired by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt.

Before AI, Charles was building the security and privacy systems the internet runs on.

In 1996, he co-founded TrustE, one of the first data privacy programs, which still operates today as TrustArk.

That's right.

You know, this has, uh, Wendy Schmidt, who is Eric Schmidt's wife, Google heiress or Google, you know.

Not a poor individual.

No, she's just dumping millions and millions and millions of dollars into it.

Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the two co-founders of Google.

They actually found Eric Schmidt.

The head of Google for a while, then the executive chairman of Alphabet, the parent company of Google and YouTube.

They gave him the job because he was involved in Burning Man.