I am surprised at how out of touch Schmidt is that he said all these things about WFH, AI and other topics so plainly and thought he wouldn't get massive blowback. I think he ruined his reputation with many people with this, and his reputation was very decent. He realized this of course, and that's why he's trying to remove the talk from YouTube, apologized officially, etc.
Obviously this is how he thinks, it was transparent and no amount of apologizing can fix that, but usually people like him are extremely good at concealing what they think. He seems to have believed that his position was not controversial, which smells of too much time in board rooms and country clubs.
Obviously this is how he thinks, it was transparent and no amount of apologizing can fix that, but usually people like him are extremely good at concealing what they think. He seems to have believed that his position was not controversial, which smells of too much time in board rooms and country clubs.