Comments on: Admitting mistakes, Schmidt

By: Kristen Owen

Kristen Owen — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 13:57:20 +0000

What I would give for only about 20 problems total, nothing out of the ordinary.

It seems Schmidt may be in need of a vacation, or at least a media break.

I agree with Barry, perhaps they should see things from the customer's point of view. But that's probably one of the "normal" problems. Big wigs seem to go blind when putting on the customer's shoes.

By: Kristen Owen

Kristen Owen — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 13:56:40 +0000

What I would give for only about 20 problems total, nothing out of the ordinary.

It seems Schmidt may be in need of a vacation, or at least a media break.

I agree with Barry, perhaps they should see things from the customer's point of view. But that's probably one of the "normal" problems. Big wigs seem to go blind when putting on the customer's shoes.

By: Barry Welford

Barry Welford — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 16:52:51 +0000

Did he say idiots? Perhaps idiot savants might be more appropriate. They really are brilliant, but occasionally seem to be out of touch with the realities of the market place. If only they would try to see things from the customer’s point of view more often. That isn’t rocket science.

By: Igor M. (BizMord Blog)

Igor M. (BizMord Blog) — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 15:53:08 +0000

Excellent response from the CEO of Google. I mean what other intelligent response could you get? No we're not idiots and we know everything that there is to know?

Let people point out the problems for you so that you can focus on fixing them. These things will always arise, especially in a "fast growing" company, so why are we surprised?

By: darkmoon

darkmoon — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 04:51:45 +0000

“..between the IPO filing and going pubic.”

going pubic? Man. Poor Google.

By: Dave McClure

Dave McClure — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 01:47:12 +0000

sorry...

went => won't

By: Dave McClure

Dave McClure — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 01:46:13 +0000

…and for those of us who were willing & ready to JUMP on the IPO at $105, we were even happier to jump in at $85!

(just keep bringing me the “idiots” running tech companies IPO’ing, and i’ll keep putting my chips on the table

too bad for bill hambrecht’s OpenIPO format… seemed to have so much promise. ah well, so much for market optimization. guess you have to bake in 10-15% upside, or it just went fly with the institutional clients.