Comment Re:Amazing discovery in this article (Score 3, Informative) 99
i think both of Google's founders were smart enough to understand they were GEEKS and not try to run the business themselves. So they went out and got Eric Schmidt
TFA explains that Page was not very cooperative to get a mature CEO. Essentially, he had Schmidt shoved through his throat:
Page had never been behind hiring [Schmidt] -- or any CEO, for that matter. Google's investors made him do it. (...) And for a long time, Larry Page was very unhappy.