Google has become such a corporate colossus, and the search engine's chief exec so media-trained, that it's easy to forget the company's quirky youth. When Eric Schmidt, the former Novell chief exec, interviewed for the Google job, he stood out to the search engine's founders because he was the only candidate who had been to Burning Man. Here he is, in photos we've just stumbled across, at the desert festival, in 2004. Your captions, after the jump.
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Eric Schmidt at Burning Man
Google has become such a corporate colossus, and the search engine's chief exec so media-trained, that it's easy to forget the company's quirky youth. When Eric Schmidt, the former Novell chief exec, interviewed for the Google job, he stood out to the search engine's founders because he was the only candidate who had been to Burning Man. Here he is, in photos we've just stumbled across, at the desert festival, in 2004. Your captions, after the jump.
[Photographs available for purchase on Smugmug.]
8:40 AM on Mon May 14 2007
By Nick Denton
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The Village People 2.0
Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy - now available on DVD.
Is he the one in the pink? Please say no.
This picture is precious! Good sleuthing!
LOLgays
the Smugmug page requests a password... We need to see more of him!
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