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Profile of Eric Schmidt CEO of Google

He was born in Washington, DC in 1955 and grew up in Virginia. He mowed lawns in his teens for pocket money and liked to build furniture. In 1970, his father rented a computer and he precociously rewrote its software. A degree in electrical engineering at Princeton and masters in computer science followed, leading to a job at the Xerox research centre in Palo Alto. He joined Sun Microsystems and led development of its Java software and became its chief technology officer in 1994. He left to become chief executive of Novell, the networking company, before he joined Google as its chairman in March 2001.

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