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This should constitute a black bar for today.

Campbell was responsible for shaping some of the greatest minds the tech industry has ever known. I mean, the amount of money that the people who learned from Campbell control can be measure in TRILLIONS. This man was the absolutely one of the most influential people I can even think of when it comes to tech.

I wish I could've met him!




> TRILLIONS

C'mon now, let's not get ahead of ourselves...


Apple and Google alone have over a trillion in market cap.


How much of that valuation is due to his efforts, and how much is due to the decades of labour by over a hundred thousand talented engineers?


That's not what he suggested:

> the amount of money that the people who learned from Campbell control can be measure in TRILLIONS


Eric Schmidt is quoted as saying that the totality of Google's organizational structure owes itself to Bill Campbell.

That's a pretty substantial fraction of the company's valuation.


Valuation =/= "control" over that money.

(source : Founder)




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