In this success post, we are going to share the story of Eric Schmidt, an American businessman and software engineer, executive chairman of Alphabet, and Google, born on 27th April 1955, In Falls Church, Virginia, US.
Eric Schmidt Personal Life
In June 1980, he married Wendy Susan Boyle. But they had two daughters Allison and Sophie. The couples separated in the year 2011, but they did not divorce.
Eric Schmidt Education
In the year 1972, he had graduated from Yorktown High School In Yorktown. And in the year 1976, he had completed his BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University. In the year 1979, also he had earned MS degree in designing and implementing a Network from the University of California.
Eric Schmidt Career
Eric has been facing many challenges in the way of his early life. He started his career by working in various technology companies. At the beginning of his career, Eric was associated with Bell Labs, Zilog, and so on.
He was the first software engineer manager of Sun Microsystems. Eric joined this software company in the year 1983. In the year 1997, Eric joined as a chairman and CEO of Novell. Eric Schmidt joined Google in the year 2001 as the chairman and became CEO in the same year. He took the responsibility to build the corporate infrastructure to maintain Google growth across the globe.
From 2006 to 2009, Eric has been associated with Apple as one of the Board of Directors. Other than these works, Eric is associated with some of the political toils. But he was a member of PCAST in Barack Obama’s time.
Eric Schmidt Awards & Achievements
Eric has been awarded $100 million in Google stock, restricted stock. In the year 2006, also he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Other than this, he was announced into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007.
Eric Schmidt Net Worth
Eric is a famous American businessman who has a net worth of $20 billion as of April 2020.
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