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“I used to tell people, my job is to sit in meetings 12 hours a day, five days a week. I worked on the weekend too. So I worked 63 hours a week.”

Eric Schmidt · In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen · Eric Schmidt: The Age of Agents, Superintelligence, and Why Europe Is Falling Behind

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Sat in meetings 12 hours a day, 5 days a week, working 63 hours a week to coordinate a 10,000-person company

12 hrs meetings per day, 63 hrs week

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