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BREAKING: 'Coach' Bill Campbell Has Died In Silicon Valley: Reports
Media reports are saying the man who advised Steve Jobs and other luminaries has passed away.
SILICON VALLEY - "Coach" Bill Campbell has passed away in Silicon Valley, according to several news outlets, including Kara Swisher at re/code.
According to Swisher, Campbell headed companies like Intuit and worked in key jobs at Apple, Claris and Go, and also served many boards, including Columbia University, Intuit and Apple.
But he was most known as a mentor of some of the largest Silicon Valley names, including Steve Jobs, Larry Page and Jeff Bezos.
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Tweets began pouring in as soon as the news was announced.
Just hearing the news about Bill Campbell. Horrible. Called me on my last day at Twitter & had both the funniest & most insightful comments
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Today the world lost one of its best men - Bill Campbell. He made everyone around him better. I was so fortunate to know him
— Andy Rachleff (@arachleff) April 18, 2016
Hard to think of any single person who had as much impact on how tech biz was managed as Bill Campbell. RIP. https://t.co/9JUKx5Fgf0
Beautiful statement from Apple on the death of Bill Campbell, a former director and close friend of Steve Jobs pic.twitter.com/kdLtrGHYpF
— Daisuke Wakabayashi (@daiwaka) April 18, 2016
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