Eric Schmidt the company and act as an adviser to co-founders Page and Brin. Google gave him a $100 million equity award in 2011 when he stepped down as CEO. On 4 April 2011, Page replaced Schmidt as the CEO. On December 21, 2017, Schmidt announced he would be stepping down as the executive chairman of Alphabet. While working at Google, Schmidt was involved in activities that later became the subject of the High-Tech Employee Antitrust Litigation case that resulted in a settlement of $415 million paid by Adobe, Apple, Google and Intel to employees. In one incident, after receiving a complaint
Canopy Growth Corporation Canopy Growth Corporation Canopy Growth Corporation, formerly Tweed Marijuana Inc., is a cannabis company based in Smiths Falls, Ontario, founded by Bruce Linton in 2013, renamed Canopy Growth Corporation in 2015. As of late September 2018, Canopy was the world's largest cannabis company, based on the value of all shares, or market capitalization. A Carleton University grad, Bruce Linton took is Founder, Chairman and Co-CEO . Mark Zekulin is Co-CEO and President. The company was the first federally regulated, publicly traded cannabis producer in North America, traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange as "WEED". It began trading as "CGC" on