article_snippet.sent: Schmidt is a one-man case study of the kinds of influence a multibillionare tech titan can wield in Washington when the stars align.
article_snippet.sent: newly minted President Obama offered Schmidt newly minted President Obama choice of cabinet slots after the 2012 election – either Treasury or Commerce – and was even prepared to create a new 'Secretary of Business' position for newly minted President Obama.
article_snippet.sent: Schmidt's roots with newly minted President Obama run deep.
article_snippet.sent: When the president visited the president campaign headquarters on Election Day in 2012, Schmidt was there overseeing final efforts to leverage 'Big Data' to nudge last-minute voters to the polls.
article_snippet.sent: Schmidt's specialized software gave then-Senator Obama access to high-tech voter targeting algorithms that Republican John McCain couldn't match.
article_snippet.sent: Michael Slaby (left) and Justin Vincent (right) were key architects of newly minted President Obama's data-mining and voter-targeting software efforts, and both were emigres from Google .
article_snippet.sent: And Michael Slaby, the chief integration and innovation officer af Obama
article_snippet.sent: For America, the president's campaign organization came over from a job as technology strategist for TomorrowVentures – Schmidt's venture capital fund.