Eric Schmidt of Novell. He presided over a period of decline at Novell where its IPX protocol was being replaced by open TCP/IP products, while at the same time Microsoft was shipping free TCP/IP stacks in Windows 95, making Novell much less profitable. In 2001, he departed after the acquisition of Cambridge Technology Partners. Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin interviewed Schmidt. Impressed by him, they recruited Schmidt to run their company in 2001 under the guidance of venture capitalists John Doerr and Michael Moritz. In March 2001, Schmidt joined Google's board of directors as chairman, and became the company's CEO
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