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ViDEO: Peter Thiel to Eric Schmidt: "Google Is Out of Good Ideas"

Published July 18, 2012
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At Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference taking place this week in Aspen, the fireworks went off between Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google and now executive chairman, and Peter Thiel, founder of PayPal and outspoken libertarian. They both started out addressing whether or not technology has improved humanity in the past 30 years but soon ended up debating whether Google had lost its innovative edge.

Business professor Clayton Christensen also has doubts about Google (jump to time code 1:15):

Clayton Christensen: Is Facebook Really Innovative? from on FORA.tv

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