Mentor of Steve Jobs and Larry Page: Bill Campbell is dead – n-tv.de NEWS

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 Tuesday, 19 April 2016

 
 
 

 
 He advised Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Google founders Larry Page. Nicknamed “Coach” he had from his time as football coach. Now Bill Campbell dies at 75 years.
 

 
 

In Silicon Valley they called him “The Coach”: The legendary mentor Bill Campbell, who advised, among other Apple founder Steve Jobs and Google CEO Larry Page has died at the age of 75.

Campbell was vice president of marketing at Apple, and later headed the belonging to the Group software company Claris. He later left the company, however. 1997 with the return of Jobs to Apple, Campbell then moved to the Board of the Group, and remained there until, 2014.

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In addition, he also gave advice to Page and longtime Google CEO Eric Schmidt, which had seen repeatedly tensions with jobs in the face of competition between the two companies. Campbell believed in Apple, as the even did a few people, CEO Tim Cook said in a Abschiedstweet.

In the 90s, Campbell himself had been at the head of software company Intuit, whose Board until at last board. In the US, a more important role than the German supervisory boards and determines, among other things, the strategy with the Panel. Nicknamed “Coach” Campbell owed even his time as coach of the football team of his university Columbia.

  Source: n-tv.de
 

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