Two minutes before his introduction on stage yesterday, Google chief executive Eric Schmidt walked across the ballroom of the Willard Intercontinental Hotel unnoticed by most of the pinstriped crowd dining on crab cakes and tenderloin.
By the time the clock ran out on Schmidt's 25-minute speech, more than a third of the audience was gone.
It was a strong showing, compared to the last time a big Google executive was in town. Google co-founder Sergey Brin swooped into Washington last year, decked in jeans and silver mesh sneakers, trying unsuccessfully to score meetings with members of Congress. He was caught unawares by an inside-the-Beltway public-relations campaign directed against his company.
vincevincevince
10:05 am on Feb 7, 2007 (gmt 0)
From the writeup, it seems he did a stirling job and should be congratulated. Talk to any group of anyone about anything they don't really want to hear about for 25 minutes and half of them will stop listening before the end. These aren't tech people, and many of them are the demographic equivalent of anti-tech people.
Martin40
2:19 pm on Feb 7, 2007 (gmt 0)
The article says:
He [Brin] was caught unawares by an inside-the-Beltway public-relations campaign directed against his company [Google] .
Why is there such a campaign? What's the politcal logic (i.e. interests)?
coldfused
1:32 am on Feb 8, 2007 (gmt 0)
What's the politcal logic (i.e. interests)?
Trying to Control something they can't really control becuse they don't truly understand what it is.
Nerds scare the old politicians, especially billionaire nerds.
Martin40
3:59 pm on Feb 8, 2007 (gmt 0)
Trying to Control something they can't really control becuse they don't truly understand what it is.
Nerds scare the old politicians, especially billionaire nerds.
Maybe they think Sergey Brin is a communist...
(and Matt Cutts a terrorist...since he posed as Inigio Montoya).
coldfused
12:26 am on Feb 9, 2007 (gmt 0)
Matt Cutts is not a terrorist, he is a spy for Yahoo.