What do you do if you’ve created Google and one of your largest investors tells you to hire a CEO?
That’s the dilemma faced bySergey Brin and Larry Page, Google’s founders, in 2000 when John Doerr of the Silicon Valley venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins told the founders they needed “adult supervision.”
The Google pair interviewed 14 people from the tech community but to no avail, according to a Bloomberg report.
Brin and Page asked Doerr if he could arrange a meeting with Apple CEO Steve Jobs — since he was a personal hero to both of them.
After the meeting, Brin and Page told Doerr they both wanted Jobs for the CEO position at Google.
Doerr laughed and then told the pair they should meet the former CEO of Novell, Eric Schmidt.
And the rest is history.