Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Blitzscaling 08: Eric Schmidt on Structuring Teams and Scaling Google

Feb. 22, 2017

Watch the video, 1 hour 22minutes.

Ask five-year question
14 years Java
-> Novell
-> Understand the cash, revenue, from Novell

150 people when Schmidt joined Google
-> same professor 18 years difference - two founders hired the CEO
-> 18 months plan, no deliverable, like a graduate school
-> raw talent matters ?
-> Talk about playboy interviews
-> professional vs. founders
-> 100 > 60 plus thousand
-> 3 of you read every resume
-> cautionary tale: no product should ship before it matures
barely work,
debate, operation and
performance of firefox -> invent Chrome -> 10 more people
Bought Android -> 1.4 billion operating system
Big management of lesson - Eric is wrong all the time (?)
compound value of decision

Recruiting
Sell the dream ? (20:00 - 25:00)
hire incredible intelligent people - debate
hire people who can get job done -
lesser universities/ not your friend/
controversial -
glue people -
Let us all reviewing all hiring, smell like glue people
Huge argument - we never fire anyone, hiring is crucial
normal people who have done something special
hire generic people, CFO who goes to bankrupt
Review all packets - how to score the people 1-5 bias - average weight - future performance
unconscious bias - understand bias
interview 16 time, this gentleman, cannot interview people more than 8 times -> 5 or 4 times
simple techniques -> analytical bias

Management
Be a disruptive and be a good way
Chrome - 20 people 40:00
120 engineer works for one manager - run that in 2 years
CEO is to manage the chaos.

Not to do and move fast? No.
Keep Google innovative - don't be evil and 20% time

How did you end up growing managers?
business analytical skills -
you should hire divas - drive culture of excellence

the attitude: "Just start it and make it work out "

Excellent talk - finished 85 minutes one time.


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