{"id":208367,"date":"2025-03-11T16:11:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T21:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/eric-schmidt-joins-relativity-space-as-ceo"},"modified":"2025-03-11T16:11:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T21:11:40","slug":"eric-schmidt-joins-relativity-space-as-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/eric-schmidt-joins-relativity-space-as-ceo","title":{"rendered":"Eric Schmidt joins Relativity Space as CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/eric-schmidt-joins-relativity-space-as-ceo2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is taking over as the CEO of Relativity Space, a 9-year-old rocket startup, a company spokesperson confirmed in a statement to TechCrunch. This is Schmidt\u2019s first CEO job since he left Google nearly 15 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Schmidt told employees of Relativity Space that he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/10\/technology\/eric-schmidt-relativity-space.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" cmp-ltrk=\"Article - intext links\" cmp-ltrk-idx=\"0\" mrfobservableid=\"073dd3ff-e9fd-4906-90ed-d6b79dafac25\">made a significant investment and had taken a controlling stake in the company<\/a>, The New York Times first reported.<\/p>\n<p>Schmidt is succeeding the startup\u2019s co-founder, Tim Ellis, as chief executive. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thetimellis\/status\/1899191048481788092\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" cmp-ltrk=\"Article - intext links\" cmp-ltrk-idx=\"1\" mrfobservableid=\"a1ef68b4-7875-4635-b897-728985071372\">post on X<\/a>, Ellis noted he will continue to support Relativity Space as a director on the company\u2019s board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is taking over as the CEO of Relativity Space, a 9-year-old rocket startup, a company spokesperson confirmed in a statement to TechCrunch. This is Schmidt\u2019s first CEO job since he left Google nearly 15 years ago. On Monday, Schmidt told employees of Relativity Space that he made a significant investment [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}