Guy Kawasaki is the chief evangelist of Canva and the creator of Guy Kawasaki’s Remarkable People podcast. He is an executive fellow of the Haas School of Business (UC Berkeley) and an adjunct professor of the University of New South Wales. He was the chief evangelist of Apple and a trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation. He has written Wise Guy, The Art of the Start 2.0, The Art of Social Media, Enchantment, and eleven other books. Kawasaki has a BA from Stanford University, an MBA from UCLA, and an honorary doctorate from Babson College.   

In this STIMY episode, we explore what it was like growing up in Honolulu, Hawaii and the important people/events that set Guy on the path to becoming one of the world's most well-known brand evangelists!

Highlights:

• 3:09: Growing up in Kalihi Valley
• 4:17: Harold Keebles - one of the toughest teachers Guy ever had
• 5:11: Stanford in the 1970s
• 5:45: Why Guy quit law school after 2 weeks
• 6:59: Working at a jewellery manufacture company
• 7:26: Why Guy describes sales as hand-to-hand combat
• 9:28: Getting into Apple through nepotism
• 10:22: What it was like working at Apple in the 1980s
• 11:24: How Apple was set up then
• 13:29: Why Guy quit Apple for the first time
• 15:00: Why Apple rejoined Apple in the 1990s, when everyone thought the company would die
• 15:41: What a Chief Evangelist does
• 16:11: The Evange-List
• 18:02: How Guy first got involved in Canva
• 19:29: Guy’s role in Canva 
• 21:19: Building brand awareness
• 22:54: Getting into podcasting 
• 24:33: Getting Jane Goodall as his first podcast guest
• 28:08: How Guy first got onto Clubhouse
• 29:32: How Guy decides who to let onto the Clubhouse stage in his AMA rooms 
• 31:02: What Guy thinks Clubhouse needs to achieve to go mainstream
• 32:19: Why Guy keeps giving out his personal email freely

Show notes: https://www.sothisismywhy.com/39