Eric Schmidt

$23.19B

$4.7M

as of 10/03/24

About Eric Schmidt

Eric Schmidt left the board of Google parent company Alphabet in June 2019 after 18 years; he stayed on as a technical advisor until February 2020.

Schmidt was Google's CEO from 2001 to 2011; prior to that he had stints as CEO of Novell and chief technology officer at Sun Microsystems.

He co-founded Innovation Endeavors, a venture capital firm that has invested in Uber, SoFi, and Zymergen, among others.

In May 2015, his family's investment vehicle bought a 20% stake in hedge fund firm D.E. Shaw & Co. for an undisclosed price.

Personal stats

Citizenship

United States of America

Source of wealth

Google

Residence

Atherton, California

Marital status

Married

Birth date

04/27/55 (age 69)

Number of children

Education

Bachelor of Arts/Science, Princeton University; Doctorate, University of California, Berkeley; Master of Science, University of California, Berkeley

Self-made

self-made

Eric Schmidt’s fortune is worth

386K

troy ounces of gold

357K

median U.S. household

232K

median U.S. income

0.464%

U.S. credit card volume

0.093%

GDP of the United States

0.068%

United States debt

Net worth history

Annual ranking

Did you know?

He has toured some of the world's most tightly controlled regimes to promote open internet access, including in Cuba and North Korea.

Net worth over time

Real-time ranking

Financial assets

NASDAQ | GOOGL-US

Alphabet$9.1B

NASDAQ | GOOG-US

Google Inc. (Cl C)$7.8B