{"id":1238485,"date":"2025-03-10T17:05:30","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T21:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1238485"},"modified":"2025-03-10T17:05:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T21:05:30","slug":"former-google-ceo-eric-schmidt-is-the-new-leader-of-relativity-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1238485","title":{"rendered":"Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is the new leader of Relativity Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Another Silicon Valley investor is getting into the rocket business.<\/p>\n<p>Former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt has taken a controlling interest in the Long Beach, California-based Relativity Space. The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/10\/technology\/eric-schmidt-relativity-space.html?searchResultPosition=1\">first reported<\/a> the change becoming official, after Schmidt told employees in an all-hands meeting on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Schmidt&#8217;s involvement with Relativity has been quietly discussed among space industry insiders for a few months. Multiple sources told Ars that he has largely been bankrolling the company since the end of October, when the company&#8217;s previous fundraising dried up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/space\/2025\/03\/former-google-ceo-eric-schmidt-is-the-new-leader-of-relativity-space\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/space\/2025\/03\/former-google-ceo-eric-schmidt-is-the-new-leader-of-relativity-space\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Silicon Valley investor is getting into the rocket business. Former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt has taken a controlling interest in the Long Beach, California-based Relativity Space. The New York Times first reported the change becoming official, after Schmidt &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1238485\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,44,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1238485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-technology","category-unfiltered-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1238485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1238485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1238485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1238485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}