The wrench to success: the orphanage took the business from his father and received $ 6 billion

The American Eric Schmidt is compared with the heroes of Charles Dickens - his parents lived in poverty and did not want to take care of him, so he spent two years as a child in an orphanage. This happened when the mother of Eric, who was then nine years old, became seriously ill. The father, Allan Schmidt, who was a peddler in the Los Angeles area, did not find time for the child and simply assigned him to strangers. The morals in the orphanage were harsh - once a future billionaire was beaten by an employee, he also got it from other children. “It was very hard,” the entrepreneur recalls. “I was very angry and unhappy.”