Eric Schmidt

Eric Emerson Schmidt is a billionaire technologist, former Google CEO, and relentless polymath who quietly shaped the digital age while most of us were still figuring out dial-up. After steering Google from scrappy startup to global colossus (2001-2011), he pivoted to national security advisory, quantum computing ventures, ocean research, and as of March 2025, rocket manufacturing as CEO of Relativity Space. With a net worth around $54.5 billion, five co-authored books on AI, and philanthropic commitments exceeding $1 billion, Schmidt operates at the intersection of geopolitics, frontier science, and Silicon Valley ambition.