The Search Party
On Google, its co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and CEO Eric Schmidt. “I learned that Google had an interesting management structure,” Philippe Dauman, the C.E.O. of Viacom, says, describing the negotiations that preceded the YouTube lawsuit. “Every time we thought we came down to a certain point, the Google people changed their minds. And they changed the people in the negotiations.” He explains, “I talked to their C.E.O., and then when Eric went down a certain path he had to have a discussion back in Mountain View with his two associates. Often, there would be a total change in direction.”
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The New Yorker
Published: Jan 14, 2008
Length: 24 minutes (6,123 words)