American football coach turned business executive and coach who became the most important executive coach in Silicon Valley history — coaching Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Sundar Pichai, Sheryl Sandberg, and many others — serving as a board member and advisor while demanding no payment.
Created the Silicon Valley coaching culture — Bill Campbell's combination of football coaching principles (team above individual, relentless honesty, love for the person) applied to technology executives produced extraordinary results; Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle documented his methods in Trillion Dollar Coach after his death.
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