ERIC Schmidt, the founder and former CEO of Google Inc met with a Tempo team after he paid a courtesy call to Vice President Boediono at the State Palace. Unlike other VIPs who are usually driven in a luxury car, he arrived in a taxi. Schmidt, who is worth Rp7 trillion, is an affable and self-assured man, but he can also be firm, like when he disagreed with the Chinese government to set up an information censorship mechanism.

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