Eric Schmidt
American businessman and software engineer
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| March 2025 | Schmidt took over as CEO of Relativity Space, an aerospace manufacturing company, after acquiring a controlling stake in the company. |
| 2024 | Eric Schmidt discussed potential AI startup strategies in an interview with Stanford University students, highlighting the Silicon Valley approach of 'move fast and break things' and potential legal risk-taking with intellectual property. |
| 2024 | Appointed an Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to philanthropy. |
| 2023 | Schmidt was part of an investment group led by Josh Harris that purchased the Washington Commanders NFL team for $6.05 billion, the highest price ever paid for a sports team. |
| 2023 | Appointed to the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology, a legislative commission tasked with making policy recommendations to Congress and the Executive Branch. |
| March 2023 | Testified at a U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability hearing regarding AI. |
| 2022 | Schmidt was appointed to the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology to make policy recommendations to Congress and the Executive Branch. |
| 2022 | Became part of an investment group led by Josh Harris that purchased the Washington Commanders NFL team for $6.05 billion, setting a record for the highest price paid for a sports team. |
| 2022 | Became chairman of Sandbox AQ, a Palo Alto-based quantum computing and AI company that spun off from Alphabet Inc. |
| 2022 | Eric Schmidt and Wendy Schmidt donated $12.6 million to UC Berkeley to establish the Schmidt Center for Data Science and the Environment, also contributing to the university's International House and Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing. |
| October 2022 | Co-authored an article titled 'America Could Lose the Tech Contest With China' for Foreign Affairs with Ylli Bajraktari. |
| 2021 | Co-authored the book 'The Age of AI: And Our Human Future' with Henry Kissinger and Daniel Huttenlocher, exploring the implications of artificial intelligence on human society and future. |
| December 2021 | Joined Chainlink Labs as a strategic advisor. |
| October 2021 | Founds the Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP) and serves as its chairman. |
| November 2020 | Schmidt exited his position on the Defense Innovation Advisory Board. |
| November 2020 | Reported to be finalizing plans to become a citizen of Cyprus through an immigrant investor program. |
| October 2020 | Publicly criticized social networking services, stating they are 'amplifiers for idiots and crazy people', contrary to the original intentions of Big Tech firms. |
| September 2020 | Purchased Montecito Mansion, a 22,000-square-foot estate overlooking Santa Barbara, for $30.8 million. |
| August 2020 | Launched the podcast 'Reimagine with Eric Schmidt'. |
| July 2020 | Began working with the U.S. government to create a tech college aimed at educating future coders, cyber-security experts, and scientists. |
| February 2020 | Schmidt left his post as technical advisor of Alphabet after 19 years with the company. |
| 2019 | Schmidt publicly denied being an art collector, despite previous recognition for his art collection. |
| 2019 | Schmidt began co-chairing the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence with Robert O. Work. |
| 2018 | Becomes the first chair of the U.S. National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence. |
| 2017 | Schmidt's daughter Alison passed away from an illness. |
| 2017 | Founds philanthropic venture Schmidt Futures and becomes a technical advisor at Alphabet, serving until 2020. |
| December 21 2017 | Schmidt announced he would be stepping down as executive chairman of Alphabet. |
| May 2016 | By May 2016, Hillary Clinton's campaign had spent $500,000 on The Groundwork, a start-up company Schmidt was invested in through Timshel. |
| March 2 2016 | Secretary of Defense Ash Carter appointed Schmidt as chairman of the DoD Innovation Advisory Board, tasked with helping the Pentagon become more innovative and adaptive. |
| 2015 | Acquired a 20% stake in D. E. Shaw & Co. |
| 2015 | Becomes executive chairman of parent company Alphabet Inc. |
| 2015 | Schmidt Family Foundation donated $10 million to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. |
| 2015 | Acquired a 20% stake in D. E. Shaw & Co. and became an investor in CargoMetrics hedge fund. |
| April 2015 | Schmidt invested in The Groundwork, a start-up company associated with Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign, which charged the campaign $177,000 in the second quarter of the year. |
| April 2015 | Delivered the commencement address at Virginia Tech and donated $2 million to the College of Engineering, funding the Paul and Dorothea Torgersen Dean's Chair in Engineering. |
| January 2015 | Eric Schmidt, along with Jared Cohen from Google Ideas, met with Pope Francis to discuss technology and society, marking the first meeting between the Pope and a technology leader at the Vatican. |
| 2014 | Eric Schmidt made a cameo appearance in the comedy film 'Dumb and Dumber To', which starred Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels. |
| 2014 | Eric Schmidt co-authored the New York Times best-selling book 'How Google Works' with Jonathan Rosenberg and Alan Eagle, sharing business management lessons learned during his time leading Google. |
| 2014 | Schmidt appeared in a cameo role in the HBO television series 'Silicon Valley'. |
| 2013 | Schmidt and Jared Cohen published 'The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business', exploring the geopolitical implications of internet use and information access. |
| 2013 | At the Hay Festival, Schmidt expressed concern about the extensive digital record of personal information, particularly for teenagers, and acknowledged that Google has a policy of forgetting certain personal information. |
| 2013 | Schmidt commented on U.S. government surveillance, initially stating it was the 'nature of our society', but later criticized the NSA for secretly spying on Google's data centers worldwide, calling the practice 'outrageous'. |
| August 10 2013 | North Korea announced the Arirang smartphone, which was potentially using Google's Android operating system, following Schmidt's earlier visit to the country. |
| March 2013 | Eric Schmidt visited Myanmar during its democratic transition, advocating for free and open Internet use in the country and planning to meet with the country's president. |
| January 2013 | Eric Schmidt, along with Jared Cohen from Google Ideas and former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson, made a controversial diplomatic visit to North Korea, drawing significant media attention due to ongoing tensions between North Korea and the United States. |
| 2012 | The Schmidt Transformative Technology Fund increased its grant funding to $1.7 million, continuing to support research and technological innovation. |
| April 4 2011 | Larry Page replaced Schmidt as Google's CEO. |
| January 20 2011 | Google announced Schmidt would step down as CEO and transition to executive chairman, with Google providing him a $100 million equity award. |
| 2010 | Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen co-wrote an essay in Foreign Affairs magazine, which later inspired their book The New Digital Age. |
| 2010 | Founded Innovation Endeavors, an early-stage venture capital fund, with Dror Berman in Palo Alto, California. |
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