Google's Eric Schmidt: "We Took the Position That the World is Better Off With An Independent Yahoo!"
Dan Cox, on special assignment for FishbowlLA, covering the 2008 Sun Valley Media Conference.
Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin and CEO Eric Schmidt stunned the hardened journalist crowd at the Sun Valley Media Conference with an unscheduled 75-minute press conference at which they discussed everything — Google, Microsoft, Yahoo! — and their brethren.
A news conference is unusual for the Sun Valley confab because they don’t often cater to journalists and especially not through lengthy pressers.
So what started as a short sit-down with Schmidt turned into a fascinating ride into the minds of the Google executives.
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