Guy Kawasaki | Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist, Key Steve Jobs Employee & the Man Responsible for Marketing the Macintosh Computer Line In 1984 Shares Why the Rhythm of Entrepreneurships Is "Ready, Fire, Aim"
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Clay Clark
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🗓️ 10 March 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | On today's show, we are interviewing the legendary former key Apple employee turned venture capitalist, |
| 0:07.7 | bestselling author, Chief Evangelist for Canva, and Mercedes-Benz. |
| 0:12.2 | It is none other than my brother from another mother, Mr. Guy Kawasaki. |
| 0:17.5 | And on today's show, Guy shares why he believes that the secret of his success is his ability to outwork people. |
| 0:24.1 | Why he believes that there are two fundamental functions in life. |
| 0:27.4 | Somebody has to make it and somebody has to sell it. |
| 0:29.9 | Why he believes that getting the crap beat out of him while attempting to sell diamonds at a jewelry store was key to his professional development. |
| 0:36.7 | Why he believes that surrounding yourself with a network of great people is key to his professional development. Why he believes that surrounding yourself |
| 0:38.4 | with a network of great people is key to creating great opportunities. Why he believes that if you |
| 0:43.5 | have a great resume, you can't hide behind it. And why he believes if you don't have a great |
| 0:48.0 | resume, why you can't use that as an excuse. Why he lived in perpetual fear of Steve Jobs. |
| 0:55.8 | But yet he wouldn't trade those days for anything, why he believes that real entrepreneurs ship a product and then test it based |
| 1:00.6 | upon actual market feedback, why he believes that you shouldn't waste your day checking emails, |
| 1:06.2 | how he decides what projects to work on, and why at Apple the employees wore shirts that read, |
| 1:11.6 | working 60 hours per week and loving it, and why his personal mantra is to empower people like you. |
| 1:17.6 | Ladies and gentlemen, without any further ado, it is my pleasure to introduce to you, Mr. Guy Kawasaki. |
| 1:24.6 | Some shows don't need a celebrity narrator to introduce the show, but this show does. |
| 1:32.1 | Two men, eight kids, co-created by two different women, 13 multi-million dollar businesses. |
| 1:40.4 | Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Thrive Time show. |
| 1:45.6 | Now three, two, one, here we can. |
| 1:48.5 | We started from the bottom now we hear. |
| 1:51.1 | We'll show you how to get it. |
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