Guy Kawasaki
Guy Kawasaki
Guy Kawasakiis an American marketing specialist, author, and Silicon Valley venture capitalist. He was one of the Apple employees originally responsible for marketing their Macintosh computer line in 1984. He popularized the word evangelist in marketing the Macintosh and the concepts of evangelism marketing and technology evangelism...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth30 August 1954
CountryUnited States of America
companies european trying
Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea.
bring company grows larger types
Yes, but he's back again, ... As a company grows larger and larger it will have to bring in different types of managers.
growth business-growth valuable
It's just as valuable to curate content as it is to create it.
future
I'm a lousy predictor of the future.
money might making-money
If you make money, you might not make meaning.
people agree
Not many people agree with what I do.
media social interaction
Social media allows me to pick my times for social interaction.
news
The A-listers and the A+ listers, are reporting the news, they're not making it.
people use operating-systems
I have developed a Zen-like approach to the operating systems that people use: 'When you're ready, the right operating system will appear in your life.
real school thinking
What you learn in school is the opposite of what happens in the real world. In school, you're always worried about minimums. You have to reach 20 pages or you have to have so many slides or whatever. Then you get out in the real world and you think, 'I have to have a minimum of 20 pages and 50 slides.
funny thinking thoughtful
The more popular a person thinks he is in the blogosphere, the thinner his skin and the thicker his hypocrisy. This should be exactly the opposite: the higher you go the thicker the skin and thinner the hypocrisy.
opportunity done doorways
When you’ve worked hard and done well and walked through that doorway of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you.
real innovation big-companies
The real question is who will innovate.
leap evolve shows
Customers can tell you how to evolve a product, but they can't show you how to make a leap.