Schmidt felt simultaneously excited about the prospect of joining Google and anxious about entrusting his future to two mercurial twentysomethings. In the end, the balance was tipped by the trusted guardians of the Valley’s networks. “I had the surety that the venture guys would be kind to me if Larry and Sergey bounced me out,” Schmidt said.[58] If Google did not work out, Doerr and Moritz would slot him into an equally good job elsewhere. With the venture capitalists’ safety net stretched out beneath him, Schmidt took the leap. At last, Google had the experienced direction it needed to
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