Guy Kawasaki

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Guy Kawasaki
Born 1954
Honolulu, Hawaii
Occupation Venture capitalist
Former Apple evangelist

Guy Kawasaki (born 1954), one of the original Apple Computer 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


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He is the author of many books including:

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