Schmidt Reveals Bill Joy's Investing Technique
In his recent appearance on the “Charlie Rose Show” Google CEO Eric Schmidt made the claim that Bill Joy uses Google to find venture investments. I emailed Joy, a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, to find out if the somewhat kooky claim is true, but he didn’t respond. Schmidt, who used to work with Joy at Sun Microsystems, says his friend “uses Google to search for all the new ideas. He reads the papers, so he figures out what the search query is. He reads the paper, and then he calls the to say, ‘What’s new? What’s innovative?’”
18 March 2009•2 mins read
