The Architect
Structured and legacy-driven; builds the systems and institutions that last.
Eric Schmidt fits The Architect archetype because his defining public contribution was building the structures that let Google scale from a promising startup into a global institution.
“I had known John for a very, very long time because he was on the board of Sun when I was there for 14 years. And I'm at a fundraiser, a political fundraiser at John Chambers House, who was the CEO of Cisco. And John came up to me, that is John Doer came up to me and says, you should check out Google. And I said, it's a search engine.”
“Use every piece of your body, right? Your hands, your eyes, your thinking, your experience to get yourself out of this situation. And if there's something going wrong over here, then if it's not life critical, deal with it later. And that prioritization really helped.”
“So, the answer is so there's medical arguments that are not fact that we evolved as hunter-gatherers where we had relatively low amounts of food for long periods of time, so fasting was part of being a hunter-gatherer, and that our bodies are in fact healthier and better when they eat. They're not continuous grazing.”
“Yes, a CDN is made out of proxy caches. So a typical thing, the simplest example is a new movie comes out. And everybody wants to watch it online. It makes no sense to send it all from the same place. It makes much more sense to keep local copies near you. So if you're in Uzbekistan, it doesn't have to go all the way to Atlanta, Georgia.”
Greylock: “Blitzscaling 08: Eric Schmidt on Structuring Teams and Scaling Google”
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