All great CEOs have presentation secrets. Apple CEO Steve Jobs says “boom!” a lot — and other superlatives. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer loves to repeat certain words three times — often while clapping his hands. But what about departing Google CEO Eric Schmidt? What’s his secret?
It’s the use of the word “literally”, literally.
The guys at Whirled have cooked up the fun video above as a tribute to Schmidt for a solid 10 year run leading Google. “Just a fun little roast of a video involving dutifully watching 20 hours of Eric Schmidt speeches,” they tell us.
And if you listen closely, you can even hear our own Erick Schonfeld getting in on the repetitive fun as Schmidt listens. Will Larry Page continue the Google Literally tradition?
Below find the best of Schmidt’s counterparts.
Update: But before that, be sure to check out what has to be the best Schmidt “literally” comment ever. “We literally eat our own dogfood.” Um, really?
Google provides search and advertising services, which together aim to organize and monetize the world’s information. In addition to its dominant search engine, it offers a plethora of online tools and platforms including: Gmail, Maps, YouTube, and Google+, the company’s extension into the social space. Most of its Web-based products are free, funded by Google’s highly integrated online advertising platforms AdWords and AdSense. Google promotes the idea that advertising should be highly targeted and relevant to users thus providing...
Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin recruited Eric Schmidt from Novell, where he led that company’s strategic planning, management and technology development as chairman and CEO. Since coming to Google, Eric has focused on building the corporate infrastructure needed to maintain Google’s rapid growth as a company and on ensuring that quality remains high while product development cycle times are kept to a minimum. Along with Larry and Sergey, Eric shares responsibility for Google’s day-to-day operations. Eric’s Novell...
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