Earlier this year, I shared with you the inspirational story of how a Russian Jewish immigrant became the co-founder of Google, one of the world's most successful and revolutionary technology companies ever.

You'll really enjoy this interesting interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt, hired by Brin and Larry Page to run their company six years ago, before it started making money and nearly collapsed due to infighting about how to work with then Internet-giant AOL.

Google's meteoric rise to date has been due in no small part, Schmidt says, to the successful melding of philosophies from other well-known tech companies: Sony (a culture of innovation that allows for failure), Intel (very knowledgeable and very disciplined about their business) and Dell (a homegrown business).

And, you'll also learn why Schmidt learned how to fly a jet, as a means to distract him from the pressures of his day job running tech companies.

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