Shaun Tomson: Surfer, Code Maker, and Flow Evangelist

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Guy Kawasaki

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4.6 • 667 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Meet Shaun Tomson, one of the greatest surfers of all time. Surfing is a great metaphor for life. Fall off the board and afraid to get back on? Soak in Shaun's Code designed to spread positive energy and encourage self-confidence in this week's episode of Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People. The world needs more people like Shaun. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	In my years of entrepreneurship, I've seen countless startups. And here's the truth.
0:07.3	Smart spending drives growth, which is something Brex has championed. Brex isn't just a corporate credit
0:14.0	card. It's a strategic tool to help your company achieve peak performance. Corporate cards, banking, expense management, all integrated
0:24.1	on an AI-powered platform that turns every dollar into opportunity. In fact, 30,000 companies
0:32.9	are trusting Brex to help them win. Go to brex.com slash grow to learn more.
0:44.5	A few years ago, I was in the Apple store in Santa Barbara getting my son's iPhone screen
0:50.2	fixed.
0:51.1	That's a monthly occurrence.
0:53.0	A guy came up to me and asked, are you Hawaiian? And I said no.
0:57.1	Then he said, you look just like Guy Kawasaki. I responded that I was Guy Kawasaki, but I'm
1:03.1	Japanese, not Hawaiian. He introduced himself as Sean Thompson. I had just begun surfing,
1:09.5	so I didn't know who Sean was.
1:11.1	But the Apple genius said to me, do you know who he is?
1:14.6	No, I responded.
1:16.6	The genius said he's one of the greatest surfers ever.
1:19.6	Well, duh.
1:20.6	From that humble beginning, Sean and I became friends.
1:24.6	He took me surfing a few days later, and not even the great Sean Thompson could get me up on a wave.
1:31.4	Sean is recognized as one of the ten greatest surfers of all time. He won the IPS World
1:36.4	Championship in 1977. He and a small group of others established surfing as a profession in the
1:42.9	1970s. He is currently an author,
1:46.0	speaker, and board member of the Surf Rider Foundation. Besides being a remarkable
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