Guy Kawasaki Explains How Steve Jobs Taught Him to Think Remarkably

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Business, Education, Society & Culture

4.6 • 736 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Guy Kawasaki is a marketing legend and the first Chief Evangelist Officer at Apple in 1984 when he helped launch and market the first Macintosh computer. In this episode, Guy brings us back to the early days of Apple and tells us what it was truly like working alongside Steve Jobs. He explains his rise and fall at Apple, and what he learned from the best entrepreneur of our generation. He then explains how he has taken his professional experience and put it into his new book, Think Remarkable: 9 Paths to Transform Your Life and Make a Difference. Guy delivers a practical, tactical, and sometimes radical discussion of how to make a difference in the world and live a fulfilling life. Guy's book, Think Remarkable: 9 Paths to Transform Your Life and Make a Difference, is available now. Learn more about Guy at guykawasaki.com. Support the Show - Become a Patron! Help us grow and become a Patron today: https://www.patreon.com/smartpeoplepodcast Sponsors: Rocket Money - Cancel your unwanted subscriptions by going to RocketMoney.com/SMART Factor - use code smart50 to get 50% off at factormeals.com/smart50 Babbel - Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/spp Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:50.0	Chris Dampeer, thanks for tuning in.
0:52.1	We have on the show this week, the one and only Guy
0:56.6	Kawasaki. Now, many of you probably know Guy. He's a prolific author. He's an investor. He's a
1:04.1	influencer of sorts. But really, at his core, guy is a marketing legend.
1:17.8	He is often credited with helping bring the original Macintosh computer to the masses.
1:27.0	He was an early employee and leader at Apple, working for Steve Jobs, sitting in the boardrooms with Steve Jobs Jobs and eventually served as the chief evangelist
1:30.6	for Apple until I think a little bit of a falling out with Steve. You'll hear this story in this
1:35.9	episode. We spend the first 20 minutes or so talking about Steve, Apple, and what that was like.
1:42.7	We then transition into more about Guy and his lessons and
1:48.5	his career, specifically around his new book, which is called Think Remarkable, Nine Paths
1:55.1	to Transform Your Life and Make a Difference. As you can tell from this interview, guy is a little irreverent, quite sarcastic,
2:03.3	very sharp, but most importantly, he's real. You can feel the fact that he just wants to
2:09.0	help others find their way in life, accomplish their goals, overcome obstacles, and ultimately succeed, but succeed in the way that
2:20.3	they define success. In addition to what I mentioned earlier about Guy's history at Apple, he is
2:27.2	currently the chief evangelist of Canva, many of you know that, the online graphic design tool.
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