# Eric Schmidt Inner Circle The **tight, trusted core** around [[Eric Schmidt]] — the family-office/venture apparatus, the SCSP/NSCAI policy network, and his AI co-authors. This is the small inner ring; the fuller directly-connected map lives in [[Eric Schmidt First Degree Connections]]. > Roster, not biographies. Each name links to its own page where the deep profile lives. ## The apparatus (money + policy) | Entity / person | Role | |---|---| | [[Hillspire]] | Family office; conduit for the drone venture and the 22-company AI portfolio | | [[Special Competitive Studies Project]] | His privatized policy vehicle (post-NSCAI); Ylli Bajraktari as CEO | | [[White Stork]] | The drone company (Swift Beat); Jared Vander Lind (ex-SpaceX) key hire | ## The SCSP / NSCAI defense-establishment network The board and staff that carried NSCAI's worldview into [[Special Competitive Studies Project]] — Robert Work (ex-Deputy SecDef), Michèle Flournoy, Nadia Schadlow, Mac Thornberry, and Ylli Bajraktari (CEO). The defense-establishment wing of AI policy, operating in Schmidt's private vehicle. ## AI co-authors & allies | Person | Tie | |---|---| | [[Dan Hendrycks]] | Co-author, "Superintelligence Strategy"; Center for AI Safety | | [[Alexandr Wang]] | Co-author; [[Scale AI]] CEO | | [[Larry Page]] | Google co-founder; the origin relationship | ## Network peers (defense-tech) | Person | Tie | |---|---| | [[Michael Kratsios]] | Fellow [[Revolving Door]] archetype; OSTP | | [[Marc Andreessen]] | Co-backer of [[JD Vance]]'s [[Narya Capital]]; aligned AI-policy agenda | ## How to use this page vs. its neighbors - **This page** = the trusted apparatus + policy network. - [[Eric Schmidt First Degree Connections]] = everyone directly connected, including portfolio and government ties. - [[Google Defense Timeline]] = the institutional Google arc. ## See Also - [[Eric Schmidt]] — canonical biography - [[Hillspire]] · [[White Stork]] · [[Special Competitive Studies Project]] - [[Eric Schmidt First Degree Connections]] - [[Eric Schmidt Dossier]]