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Longtime Apple Board Member Bill Campbell Passes Away
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That too. Campbell became available to run Go after Sculley nixed plans for Claris to be spun off and taken public.
Of all the people I worked for/with at Apple back in the day, Bill was the best. Honest, sense of humor, love of life, and not a bad word to say about anyone, except occasionally Microsoft. So unlike many of the big egos of the time. We all learned a lot from you Bill. Thanks friend.....
Anyone that can stand up to Steve for the good of the company and still gain his respect, just shows how wonderful Bill was. RIP Mr. Campbell.
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Former Intuit chairman and Apple board member Bill Campbell has passed away following a prolonged battle with cancer, reports Re/code. Known as "The Coach" around Silicon Valley, Campbell was known for providing sage advice to the leaders of some of the Bay Area's biggest companies, including Apple and Google. At one point, he was even assisting Apple and Google at the same time, something Steve Jobs wasn't happy with. From a 2014 interview with Fortune:A longtime friend of Steve Jobs, Campbell first joined Apple under John Sculley, where he took on the role of Apple's Vice President of Marketing. After disagreements with Sculley, Campbell, who was a onetime coach of the Columbia Lions football team, he then founded Go Corporation, which was sold to AT&T.
From there, Campbell took on the role of CEO of Intuit and joined Apple's board of directors when Steve Jobs returned to the company in 1997. Campbell remained on Apple's board of directors for 17 years until his resignation in July of 2014.
Campbell was with Apple through all of its transitory periods, and following his retirement, he had kind words to share about Apple's current direction under Tim Cook. "Apple is an institution now," he said in the same Fortune inteview. "Tim's done an amazing job of building bench strength within the organization. There's a whole set of new and smart people who are taking over. You're watching that company grow up."
Update: Apple has posted a tribute to Bill Campbell on its website homepage, a day after his death.
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From there, Campbell took on the role of CEO of Intuit and joined Apple's board of directors when Steve Jobs returned to the company in 1997. Campbell remained on Apple's board of directors for 17 years until his resignation in July of 2014.
Campbell was with Apple through all of its transitory periods, and following his retirement, he had kind words to share about Apple's current direction under Tim Cook. "Apple is an institution now," he said in the same Fortune inteview. "Tim's done an amazing job of building bench strength within the organization. There's a whole set of new and smart people who are taking over. You're watching that company grow up."
Update: Apple has posted a tribute to Bill Campbell on its website homepage, a day after his death.
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Campbell was not the only advisor to both Apple and Google back then.
- Art Levinson (former CEO of Genentech) has been on the Apple board since 2000, and was ALSO on the Google board of directors from 2004-2009, right smack in the middle of iPhone development. Now he's Chairman of the Apple Board.
- Al Gore was a long term Google senior advisor who's also been on the Apple board since 2003.
As for Eric Schmidt, he was actually the LEAST likely person to leak any info, since he so admired Steve Jobs and wanted his approval. That's why he stayed away from Android meetings, which helped to cause its delay.
Not that any of the above advisor cross-pollination matters. There never was any need for insider info. Only technically ignorant people believe there must have been a mole in Apple for similar systems to appear months or years later. On the contrary, nothing Apple decided to do on the iPhone was very different from already known tech. Once the iPhone was shown off in public, that's all anyone needed to see to be able to make similar choices afterwards. Heck, there was a six month (half year) delay from its reveal to its first sale. That's an eternity in tech time.
I don't disagree at all. My post was tongue in cheek/sarcastic - because we all know all the post that accused Eric of being a mole. Ridiculous! No one else seemed to be of the "accused." And as you pointed out - there were other people that people (here) could have accused. But Eric has/had to be the "bad" guy
Says a lot about a company, the day they have the laptop refresh and a new color, that they post this guy's Memorial page on their home page instead. Even for a day, that's a lot of exposure missed, and there is no other company that would do a FULL PAGE ONLY post like that, for anybody. I love Apple more and more.
It's still good PR.
They also did the homepage thing for Steve Jobs, board member Jerry York, Nelson Mandela and Rosa Parks. Must be people whom the CEO admires. I doubt we'll ever see it for, say, the engineer who showed flick scrolling to Jobs and or those who convinced him to do a touchscreen phone.
In this particular case, I have to admire Campbell's patience in putting up with Steve Jobs' immature outbursts. E.g. "If you're helping them, you're hurting me." Seriously self-centered, that.