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
thinking skills born
I think that no one, or very few, are born as good presenters. It's a skill that you learn.
skills succeed fortune
It's a very valuable skill to succeed in life whether you work for a startup or a Fortune 500 company.
player skills people
Good people hire people better than themselves. So A players hire A+ players. But others hire below their skills to make themselves look good. So B players hire C players. C players hire D players, etc.
distance emotional skills
You need to save some mental, physical, and emotional resources for enhancing your product after you ship. A revolution is a triathlon, not a hundred-yard dash-it requires long distance stamina and multiple skills such as creating, churning, and evangelizing.
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.
bad matter time whether
It doesn't matter whether the Dow is 5000 or 50,000. If you're an entrepreneur, there is no bad time to start a company.
maybe means ten
Statistically it's probably one out of a hundred, so that means there's ten out there. Maybe twenty.
change companies resistant
I think a lot of it was because companies were resistant to change vendors.
coming country customs million tend
Coming from the U.S., you tend to look at one homogeneous market with 350 million people. But in Europe, every country has its own customs and laws.
cool stuff
They make cool stuff. Sometimes the cool stuff works. And sometimes the cool stuff doesn't work.
computer easier gets human process seen
This makes them much easier to compare. We use the computer to process the plans, but each one gets seen by human eyes.
companies european trying
Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea.
calendar clown fire investor last putting secretary time
You say: "The last time I contacted you, I..." Investor thinks: "I'm going to fire my secretary for putting this clown on my calendar again.
build copy goal investor sell ship talk
You say: "My goal is to build a world-class company." Investor thinks: "How about you ship and sell the first copy before we talk about world-class anything?