People are surprised to find out that an awful lot of people think that they're idiots.

Schmidt left Novell after the acquisition of Cambridge Technology Partners. Schmidt had legal responsibilities typically assigned to the CEO of a public company and focused on management of the vice presidents and the sales organization. He succeeded founding chairman James Fallows in 2008.

Eric Emerson Schmidt (born April 27 1955) is an American software engineer businessman and the Executive Chairman of Google. 5 billion.