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vkou on April 18, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Silicon Valley’s Legendary ‘Coach’ Bill Campbell H...

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?

endlessvoid94 on April 18, 2016 | [–]

That's not what he suggested:

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

hkmurakami on April 18, 2016 | [–]

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.

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