Guy Kawasaki
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Guy Kawasaki (born 1954) was one of the original Apple Computer employees responsible for marketing of the Macintosh in 1984. 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 defunct 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.
He is currently CEO of Garage Technology Ventures (garage.com), a venture capital firm which specializes in high-technology startup firms located in Silicon Valley, California.
Bibliography
He is the author of many books including:
- The Art of the Start (2004) ISBN 1591840562
- Rules for Revolutionaries (2000) ISBN 088730995X
- How to Drive Your Competition Crazy (1995) ISBN 078686124X
- Hindsights (1995) ISBN 0446671150
- The Computer Curmudgeon (1993) ISBN 1568300131
- Selling the Dream (1992) ISBN 0887306004
- Database 101 (1991) ISBN 0938151525
- The Macintosh Way (1990) ISBN 0060973382
See also
External links
- Garage
- GuyKawasaki.com
- Guy Kawasaki Interview
- "A brief history of mine" -(Autobiography on his blog)
- "Signum sine tinnitu" - (Guy Kawasaki's Blog, formerly "Bona Tempora Volvantur")
