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What if Google CEO Eric Schmidt started blogging at Sun's ex-employee site?

Eric Schmidt

What I've been doing since leaving Sun

2006-08-30T13:36:00Z

Sun Microsystems is doing amazing things under Jonathan Schwartz. It's awesome to have a CEO who blogs, and Sun even gives us former employees this cool place to blog, for free! Anyway, I thought I'd catch everyone up on what I've been doing since I left Sun. For a while I was lost, I must admit, and I actually went off into the desert on a kind of retreat. That was pretty weird but then I got back the old Sun religion about the neetwork being the computer and hooked up with some kids with one of those risky dot-com ventures. That worked out OK, and recently I was asked to join Apple's board of directors. It's a great honor, and it's a thrill to hang out with fellow board member Al Gore, but I have to wonder if it's any more than ceremonial. After all, it's the job of a director to advise and supervise the CEO, and when your CEO is Steve Jobs isn't that sort of like being a bodyguard to a pro wrestler? I mean, how much advice and supervision would you say Steve accepts?

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