Guy Kawasaki on Secular Evangelism, Working with Steve Jobs and Latest Book “Wise Guy”

Published on February 27, 2019

Guy Kawasaki did not invent secular evangelism, but he did help to make it popular. This goes back to 1983 and his work with the Macintosh Division of Apple. He is currently the chief evangelist of Canva, as well as holding an advisory role for many silicon valley startups.

Guy is the author of fifteen books that have been both New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers, the latest of which, “Wise Guy,” focuses on unlikely stories from his life and lessons we can learn.

Guy gives over fifty keynote speeches per year. His clients include Apple, Nike, Gartner, Google, Microsoft, and Breitling as well as dozens of trade associations.

“At 21 I thought that the key to successful company was the quality of the idea. Is it patent-pending, curve jumping, paradigm-shifting idea? Now at 64 I have come to believe that good ideas are easy, Implementation is hard.”
-Guy Kawasaki

The biggest thing that Guy has learned in his career? Ideas are cheap, Execution is valuable.

With so many ideas out there Guy Kawasaki has learned its the one that can make them happen.

“It doesn’t matter if its patent pending or paradigm shifting,” Kawasaki points out. The Point? Can you make it happen?

As for his time with Apple, Guy describes not only what it was like working with Steve Jobs, but what happened when he made the mistake of disparaging one of Apple’s executives right in front of Jobs.

As for unwinding, Guy can be seen riding the occasional wave, as a few years ago he took up surfing.

Guy Kawasaki sits down with me, Jeremy Ryan Slate, on the latest episode of the Create Your Own Life Show.

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Jeremy Ryan Slate a Contributing Editor at Grit Daily. Based in New Jersey, he is the founder of the Create Your Own Life Show, a podcast that studies world-class performers. He studied literature at Oxford University, and is a former champion power lifter turned new-media entrepreneur. Specializes in using podcasting and new media to create celebrity and was ranked #1 in iTunes New and Noteworthy and #26 in the business category. Jeremy was named one of the top 26 podcast for entrepreneurs to listen to in 2017 by CIO Magazine and Millennial Influencer to follow in 2018 by Buzzfeed.  The Create Your Own Life Podcast has been downloaded over one million times.

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