In July 2008, Fortune published a piece about the “most confidential advisor in Silicon Valley” — Bill Campbell.
Bill advises Google’s Eric Schmidt, Apple’s Steve Jobs, Kleiner Perkins’s John Doerr, and many other Silicon Valley leaders as well.
“At the old pro sports bar in Palo Alto, happy hour is in full swing. Stanford kids down pints while watching a game on TV; a birthday party is underway next to a wall filled with old Sports Illustrated covers. And in the middle of the room, gathered around a table with a brass plaque inscribed COACH’S CORNER, is a group of sixtysomething guys clinking beers and eating pizza. Holding forth is a man with twinkling eyes and a full head of gray hair who keeps wrapping his buddies in bear hugs or cussing them out or both. “You’re so f—ing full of s—!” he calls out in a gravelly rasp to one of his pals. Hoisting a Bud Light, unleashing a barrage of bad jokes and fake insults, Bill Campbell could be a saloon owner or a football coach.”
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