Incendiary accusations of collusion between Silicon Valley giants strike at heart of US business culture
5 April 2021 • 4:11pm
It had been a long night, but Google’s executive chairman Eric Schmidt could look back at his work in the Democratic Party’s election night ‘boiler room’ with quiet satisfaction. Schmidt’s corner was the dubbed the “cave”, where a crack team of 30 hand-picked analysts had pored over their laptops.
Now they could relax. After a nerve-racking autumn in which President Obama’s Republican rival Mitt Romney was level with, or ahead of the incumbent, Obama had won by a larger majority than anyone expected: five million votes. Schmidt was happy to take the plaudits.