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Before joining Google in 2001, Schmidt held technical positions at Bell Labs, Zilog, and the Palo Alto Research Center, then became the first software manager at Sun Microsystems in 1983, rising to president of Sun Technology Enterprises. From April 1997 to 2001, he served as CEO and chairman of Novell.
Schmidt served as CEO of Google from August 2001 to April 2011, a tenure of roughly ten years. He then became executive chairman of Google and later of parent company Alphabet, a role he held until December 2017.
From 2004 through 2010, Schmidt's base salary at Google was $1 per year, an arrangement agreed upon with founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Most of his additional compensation in those years covered personal security and private aircraft charters.
Schmidt was involved by early 2005 in illegal no-recruiting agreements between major technology companies. Court filings show he received complaints from Steve Jobs and directed Google HR to end recruiting from Apple, resulting in a recruiter being terminated. The case settled for $415 million paid by Adobe, Apple, Google, and Intel.
Schmidt Futures is a philanthropic venture founded by Eric Schmidt in 2017. It provided compensation for science-office employees in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, among other initiatives.
Schmidt became the first chair of the U.S. National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence in 2018 and co-chaired it with Robert O. Work from 2019 to 2021. He also chaired the Department of Defense Innovation Advisory Board from March 2016 to November 2020, and founded the Special Competitive Studies Project in October 2021.