A tech leader recalls being overwhelmed by jargon until Eric Schmidt pointed out the real problem: people and execution, not the technology itself. Even AI companies need teams to build and ship.
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We invented Java. I mean we were the tip of the spear in technology expansion. And I started to get very overwhelmed because I didn't understand the words and some of the things. And he looked at me and he said, you know what? Every company, including technology companies, the biggest issue isn't the technology. It's the people getting the people to work together to get the technology out. And that person was Eric Schmidt, right who went on to eventually go to Google. And that changed the way I looked at everything because I realized that we get the shiny objects are always out there and I'm not saying that we don't have to understand what they are but at the end of the day, as we just said, the only thing that matters is people and execution, right? Unless you're going to do a business that's AI and it doesn't but you still have at the end of the day someone building that technology.