In re: High-Tech Employee Antitrust Litigation

Filing 428

EXHIBITS re #418 SUPPLEMENTAL MOTION to Certify Class Public Exhibits to Cisneros Declaration, Exhibit U filed byGoogle Inc.. (Attachments: #1 Exhibit 175, #2 Exhibit 186, #3 Exhibit 192, #4 Exhibit 557, #5 Exhibit 597, #6 Exhibit 648, #7 Exhibit 650, #8 Exhibit 651, #9 Exhibit 653, #10 Exhibit 661, #11 Exhibit 872, #12 Exhibit 1868, #13 Exhibit 1869, #14 Exhibit 1870, #15 Exhibit 1871, #16 Exhibit 1872, #17 Exhibit 2735)(Related document(s) #418 ) (Evans, Eric) (Filed on 5/17/2013)

EXHIBIT 872

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Eric Schmidt <[e-mail]> on behalf of Eric Schmidt
Wednesday, September 07, 2005 10:52 PM
[e-mail]; Campbell, Bill; [e-mail]
Phone call from Meg Whitman

DO NOT FORWARD
Meg called to talk about our hiring practices. Here is what she said:
1. Google is the talk of the valley because we are driving salaries up across the board. People are just waiting for us to fall and
get back at us for our "unfair" practices now.
2. Our recruiting practices are "zero sum" and it appears that somewhere in Google we are targeting EBay to "hurt them" and its
the reputation that we are doing this against Yahoo, EBay and MSFT (I denied this.)
3. Apparently a Google recruiter called Maynard Webb (their COO) and had a meeting with him. Here is what the recruiter said:
a) Google is looking for a COO
b) the position will pay $10 m over 4 years.
c) the COO will be part of the "CEO succession plan" (i.e. in line to be CEO).
d) Maynard has declined to pursue this.
Based on this (falsehoods) I have directed Arnon to fire the recruiter immediately for cause.
4. This was a rough call from a good friend. We need to get this fixed.
Eric

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