Guy Kawasaki
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| Born | 1954 Honolulu, Hawaii |
| Occupation | Venture capitalist Former Apple evangelist |
Guy Kawasaki (born 1954), one of the original Apple employees responsible for marketing of the Macintosh in 1984, is a Silicon Valley venture capitalist. He is noted for bringing the concept of evangelism to the high-tech business, focusing on creating passionate user-advocates for the Apple brand. Kawasaki was a former Apple Fellow, and after leaving the company, became CEO of a pseudo-spinoff of Apple called ACIUS, which produced the 4th Dimension database program. He also started the company Fog City Software.
Kawasaki has a B.A. in psychology from Stanford University and an MBA from University of California, Los Angeles. He is Japanese American and a native of Honolulu, Hawaii where he attended the prestigious Iolani School.
He is currently CEO of Garage Technology Ventures, a venture capital firm which specializes in high-technology startup firms located in Silicon Valley, California.
Guy has a blog. The name (and theme) for this blog has been through the following changes:
- Let the good times roll
- Signum sine tinnitu (Signal without noise)
- How to change the world
[edit] Bibliography
He is the author of many books including:
- The Art of the Start (2004) ISBN 1-59184-056-2
- Rules for Revolutionaries (2000) ISBN 0-88730-995-X
- How to Drive Your Competition Crazy (1995) ISBN 0-7868-6124-X
- Hindsights (1995) ISBN 0-446-67115-0
- The Computer Curmudgeon (1993) ISBN 1-56830-013-1
- Selling the Dream (1992) ISBN 0-88730-600-4
- Database 101 (1991) ISBN 0-938151-52-5
- The Macintosh Way (1990) ISBN 0-06-097338-2
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Garage Technology Ventures
- GuyKawasaki.com
- Guy Kawasaki Interview
- Folksonomy.org Interviews Guy
- "A brief history of mine" -(Autobiography on his blog)
- "How to Change the World" - (Guy Kawasaki's Blog, formerly "Bona Tempora Volvantur" and "Signum sine tinnitu")
- "The Art of the Start" - (Annotated version of Guy Kawasaki's lecture on getting a start up company going - shown with the Veotag video annotation web service)
- 2006 IMNO Interview with Guy Kawasaki
- The Curse of Guy Kawasaki
- Silicone Valley Tool
