Former Google CEO Launched A $100 Million Company With His Girlfriend And It’s Not Going Well
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- Since leaving Google as chairman, Eric Schmidt has wielded a $20 billion fortune to build an ecosystem of influence, overseeing a vast constellation of companies and investments and taking on prestigious advisory roles that have cemented his reputation as Silicon Valley statesman and AI policy whisperer to the Pentagon.
And for the past two years, the 68-year-old has extended that clout - and committed at least $100 million, according to three sources - to a startup accelerator called Steel Perlot, which he leads as executive chairman with CEO Michelle Ritter, a 29-year-old entrepreneur who he has been dating.
Schmidt’s funds were intended to support the accelerator’s business, launching and investing in new ventures under the Steel Perlot umbrella. But just over a year after it launched, the company was asking Schmidt’s family office, Hillspire LLC, to pay its bills.
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This lady is taking being a sugar baby to a whole new level.
He could advise her start her own little startup business but as described at the alleged valuation- this is dangerous and stupid.
29 year old CEO on someone else’s lavish dime sounded stupid.
It makes Schmidt lt look super bad in terms of lacking business judgment.
Date the hottie, cheat your wife and family if that’s your prerogative.. but the business arrangement sounds sloppy AF.
Remember famous wealthy powerful people are just people they can be dumb as rocks and flawed as anyone.
Its not gold digging anymore. With application of technology, its gold mining.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Crypto mining. 😂
It’s Gold processing 😂
68 year old dating a 29 year old "entrepreneur"
Any new investors should easily see the red flags. 😂
Its not gold digging anymore. With application of technology, its gold mining.
The company involves a 68 year old man dating a 29 year old woman. End of story.
thats a 40yr old dating a newborn
Ohh Silly Man is silly 🤡
None of your business really. End of story (before it even began).
@@AnotherComment-rl6fv Or another way of looking at it - 130 years old man dating a 101 years old woman. But in this example both are still consenting adults. Don't be so insecure...
@@spacealien6333 incel take, but ok
Never mix business with pleasure.
Exactly. 😂
He is thinking with his other head
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
💀
😂
"Entrepreneur" is the most creative way yet to say "sugar baby" lol
The way he is disclosing layers of information, its hilarious! Informative and utterly entertaining :)
Only YOU can prevent tricking
I've respected this man since 1989 during Novell then at Google. I've made lots of money because of his wisdom. Sadly he is a bit dumb down there.
You left out Sun Microsystems.
Why can’t he date young women ? It’s your prejudice talking. I never personally liked him because he back stabbed Steve job but he has every right to date who ever he wants.
Rule number one never go into business with family or friends. Rule number two never give advice to family members or friends.
100000% been there
It wasn't really a business… it was the Ho Tax.
What are you talking abou? Jeff Bezos (who was actually mentioned in this video) got Amazon started by funding provided by family and close friends and started the business with his wife! Look at the Walton brothers, the Ford brothers, the McDonald brothers, Disney brothers, Warner brothers, heck the Rockefeller brothers etc etc. If your family is not cohesive, doesn't communicate effectively and allows outside influences to create tension amongst your family, then yeah, don't do business with family /and or friends.
Worth every penny. Good on you, Eric.
That’s great, but with other people’s money?
@@pearpo did he force other people to buy shares?
goddammm the lady host voice is angelic
Dude is the ultimate simp 😂😂😂
A 68-year-old dating a 29-year-old. What could possibly go wrong?
It's not the dating part that's problematic , it's that they're business "partners" using his money to bankroll it . Having a young attractive piece of arm candy is great for any rich guy ! Making her your business partner shows how stupid he can be !!!!
Crumbs …..
When you have billions, who cares about crumb.
Adnan Kashoggi once said …if you know how much you own ….you can’t be worth much.
Pretty much she did casting couch with him
i wish i was the couch 😂
I lose so much respect for these genius businessmen listening to their other head in relationships instead of the one that originally made them successful.
This time he listened to his heart. Let the guy live a little. He worked hard amassed a lot wealth. Let him enjoy before he dies…
@sour He can do whatever he wants, he earned it. I’m just perplexed at the pattern of wealthy tech geniuses who end up like this when they can easily hire professionals to coach them or use the same genius brain to better understand dating dynamics. Such contrast
@@arisejeff yeah he could get better girls like models or something but he listened his heart though
@arisejeff
Agreed. It seems like a very poor move. One made with exceedingly low self-esteem. It’s extremely toxic for the other employees. Is he still married? His Daughter is older than his girlfriend.
I worked in a business where this exact scenario had happened. The old man left his wife and three adult children. It was a horrible work environment.
Stratton Oakmont :-)
🤣
I love how everybody that touches money is suddenly an entrepeneur, nah they the same shmucks they were before exploiting the system
Imagine paying $100 million to date a 6 out of 10.
🤣🤣
😂😂😂😂
In our country we have a saying. "If you wanna eat steak, just go to steakhouse, no need to buy the cattle" Enough said.
It's illegal to solicit steak in the US, so it's hard for him to just go to a steak house specifically since he's well known
In steakhouse you would not get fresh exclusive steaks.
Out of 20 billion 100 million is pocket lint
Stupid is as stupid does-Forest Gump
sadly success man usually tend to do stupid thing when having an affair.
The power of P. Never fails.
Entrepreneurial skill enough to date a 40 year older billionaire...
The girlfriend's idea is so unorginal TBH
68 and 29. Which head is he thinking with...
Gold digger
And the man is a predator dating women old enough to be his daughter.
Sprinkle,sprinkle!
Lol😂😂😂😂
Look at you !! Loook at youuuu !! lol
Who are you playing with? 🤣
some of these comments have me rolling. LOL.
A big L for the dude. Hope he bounces back soon.
It does not help that these 2 sound as robotic as an AI couple. Just get to the gist of it
Let's see if that guy could pick up that girl if he was just a manager at Target. What a joke. Either she is a gold digger or he is delusional about his appeal. "You can't always get what you want.." Rolling Stones
she is gold digger
Wow. You deserve a Nobel prize for such a remarkable discovery captain obvious.
@@xyzmediaandentertainment8313 I'll just add that to the others.
Your delusional to believe a girl doesn't care about money and power...
It's built into the programming.
All you can do is accept it and move on
@@LearntoResearchyup
And that’s how Schmidt became 😂schmuck😂
"wHo Is eRiC schMitt?"
A Gen Z question that would sting any fading 60+ year old technocrat.
She asked that question for the viewers in mind. I'm sure she know who he is.
with great power
I hear he moved on already,damn! He is moving like a city boy. He went for a young and blonde this time around. Might be by the time I’m finished writing this he has moved on again. He is definitely in the Billionaire city boys club.
This should last as long as Elon musk's 3rd starships test flight
I ain’t saying she’s Gold Digger, but she ain’t messing with… 😂
Rosemarie Miller is such a great journalist!
Who said money doesn’t buy happiness and 🐈⬛ kitty’s haha
He should have employed the girlfriend as one of his workers
Exactly
Both reporters are choosing their words very carefully.
😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
It’s like they’re held hostage 😂
Her voice, wow!
he is living my dream
Her voice is so soothing.
I never knew that you can enter in tech by the bed.... How silly how me or working hard and coding like a madMAN in my room lonely like a mofo ! lol .
Bahahahhahaha 😂 tale as old as time
He got lucky with Google , she got lucky with him. What a loser…
I'm sure it's love....of green. That's the Silicon Valley I know.
I can't believe he is 68, i thought he was same as as Larry page, something like 53 years old.
Nah. He was much older than Brin and Page when he was brought on board. They needed somebody who understood how to grow a company as at the time they were not prepared to grow Google from a business perspective since they were tech guys.
An “entrepreneur” in Gold Digging & Sugar Babying 😂😂😂
If you're 68 and you are dating that, the phrase "It's not going well" has nothing to do with you.
Does anyone believe she would even notice him without his money? Hypergamy. Stay focussed men.
Oh lord
What did he expect? You can't build a business with a liability
Boom !
Sounds like a company he started to appease her, hence why shes CEO and not him
So it’s not what you know, it’s who you’re sleeping with!😁😁😁
Wow, 29 year old.
One word: "Ew"
Erik Scmidt:
Dude.
Are you being blackmailed
about teenaged girls
or ,"bois," silly adult boys,
most of whom love cats. Hmm.
Their redeeming trait.
Cats.
Anyway.
Good luck.
One of these folks might have an Irish
accent. He's a pied
piper for the 'kids'
In this gang.
Smidt you should contact the feds.
You got blackmailed.😢
Click bait, there’s no substantial evidence or details. All speculations and a letter of intent. I’m annoyed that Forbes would put this out!!!
Damn, that's a very expensive sugar baby. Eric could've afforded thousands if he knew where to look.
He should invest the money in kenyan startups, great returns on this side.
What are the women in Kenya like?
they are gorgeous@@Salvatoreluciano.
@@LetsPayOFFAmericasDebt you don’t look very Kenyan to me
@@Salvatoreluciano.😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@Salvatoreluciano. Kenya is that one of the few cosmopolitan African countries.
😂 take note people, she is definitely an entrepreneur and not a gold digger 😂
Lots of jealousy here 😆
She and Shivon Ziilis (recently had twins from Elon Musk) should co-author a book "Become Millionaire Sugar Babies for dummies".
she looks like a tech nerd
when you invest with your balls ,,the result is expected ..
ERIC "SIMP" SCHMIDT 😮🎉
Girl friend is girl friend, not good for business.
Yeah shes not with him just for his money, imagine being so smart and then dating some lass God knows how many years younger.
Eric can buy all the women he wants with $100 million. What a waste!!
Ewww a 68 year old multimillionaire dating a hot 29 year old! That's creepy... NOT! Respect!
Someone forgot to turn his microphone on!
"equality"
Nothing wrong with it people just envy
She had sax 🎷 with my puppy orchestra.
He is dating a 29 year old? 🤮
Too old she ain't? Di Caprio dumps them at 25.
Silly con valley.
She shoulda become an onlyfans "entrepreneur" instead.
I thought he was a homosexual. Not that there is anything wrong with that.
this interviewer has the softest voice ever
Schmidt sounds like just the kind of guy who would be on Epstein's list. LOL
I'm sure he was, they all were. That's why so many of them have these massive companies and are so wealthy. You don't get to be that big unless the ones who control it all allow it to be for a price. 😮
Sucker of the century lol!
Babu bhaiya, ye ladki ka chakkar hai .
True Love Never Dies❤❤❤ 😂
lol
Michelle fell hard for his good looks.
Lol when the guy said she had been working on an influencer project since she was in college called StarX I literally rolled my eyes to the back of my head. She is the textbook definition of someone who will use you for influence and Schmidt must enjoy her as his side piece.
let the old man enjoy lol
What a lame story 🤦🏾♂️
😂😂😂
SUCKAH ! 😄
68 with 29!!!!
super smart guy
He has invested in ceo , not company
🤣🤣🤣🤣✌️✌️✌️✌️😁😁😁😁
What kind of high school reporting is this?