Guy Kawasaki Email & Phone Number

Watsonville, CA, US

United States

Santa Cruz, California, United States

Wherever there's Wifi

Guy is chief evangelist of Canva, an online graphics-design service. In this position, he "spreads the good news" about how Canva democratizes design by empowering people to create great graphics without buying or learning high-end applications.

Silicon Valley

Guy interviews remarkable people so you can be one too. For example, Jane Goodall, Margaret Atwood, Steve Wozniak, Stephen Wolfram, Martha Stewart, Arianna Huffington, and Phil Zimbardo.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Berkeley, California

Guy is an executive fellow at Haas. This means he goes to Haas several times a year and scares the crap out of the students by telling them about the real world.

Santa Cruz

Guy is on the board of directors of Cheeze. This app does one thing really well: manage albums for sharing content in a controlled manner. For example, albums for only your family, only your surfing buddies, or only your colleagues. Think of it as the anti-social social-media app.

It's a tough job, but someone has to do it. Guy is a brand ambassador for Mercedes. This means that he makes appearances for Mercedes, "unboxs" cars, and supplements Mercedes social-media efforts. And he has to drive a Mercedes all the time--yes, you read that right.

San Francisco Bay Area

Guy was on the board of trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation. This is the entity that oversees (to the extent that anything oversees 300,000 community members!) Wikipedia and the other wiki properties. Guy serves this position because he believe the democratization of information is the third most important cause in the world--the first two being climate.

Sunnyvale

Tripwire provides change-auditing software that ensures the security and availability of corporate networks by establishing a baseline of data in its desired state.

This was my second tour of duty at Apple. I held the position of "chief evangelist" and was an Apple fellow. My job description was to protect and preserve the Macintosh cult by doing whatever I had to do.

Fog City Software created Claris Emailer and LetterRip, two Macintosh applications. This was a great company because I got to work with three of my favorite people in the world: Will Mayall, Kathryn Henkens, and Jud Spencer.

MacUser and Macworld were competitors back then. I wrote for both of them--though not simultaneously. I simply can't remember the dates of my employment with them!

After listening to my own hype about the opportunities in Macintosh software, I left Apple to start a Macintosh database company.

My job was to convince developers to create hardware and software products for a new computer that had a zero installed base, zero backward compatibility, and zero/month sales. Towards the end of my first tour of duty at Apple, I also managed the group that published the Apple-labeled software (MacWrite, MacPaint, MacDraw, etc) that became Claris.

I will always have a soft spot in my heart for EduWare because this company enabled me to break into the tech sector from the jewelry business. I was rejected by many, many tech companies back then.

This is my first real job: counting and schlepping diamonds and fine jewelry. It is where I truly learned to sell. The jewelry business is much tougher than the computer business. Marty Gruber, my boss at Nova, had a tremendous influence on me.

Mba, Marketing

I've come to believe that an MBA is a hindrance to entrepreneurship, but I do have one from UCLA. My major was marketing.

Education record

As a good Asian-American, I went to law school to make my parents happy. Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately), I couldn't stand it and.

Ba, Psychology

These were some of the happiest days of my life. I loved Stanford. Sometimes I wish I could go back to school there. By the way, I majored.