chief executive officer
William Campbell.
American businessman and chairman (1940–2016)
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Bill Campbell's habits that built Apple and Google's leaders
Three Google executives distill the repeatable practices behind Campbell's influence on Jobs, Page, Brin, Sandberg, and Bezos.
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About William Campbell
William Vincent Campbell Jr. was an American businessman and chairman of the board of trustees of Columbia University and chairman of the board of Intuit. He was VP of Marketing and board director for Apple Inc. and CEO for Claris, Intuit, and GO Corporation. Campbell coached, among others, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Eric Schmidt, and Sundar Pichai at Google, Steve Jobs at Apple, Jeff Bezos at Amazon, Jack Dorsey and Dick Costolo at Twitter, and Sheryl Sandberg at Facebook.
Everything about William Campbell →- Occupation
- chief executive officer, computer scientist, businessperson, entrepreneur
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- August 31, 1940
- Died
- April 18, 2016