Guy Kawasaki

Guy Takeo Kawasaki (born August 30, 1954) is an American marketing expert, author, and business person in Silicon Valley. He is famous for his work at Apple, where he helped market the Macintosh computer in 1984.Solis, Brian; Breakenridge, Deirdre K. Putting the Public Back in Public Relations: How Social Media Is Reinventing the Aging Business of PR. FT Press, 2009. p. 9. From 2015 to 2016, Kawasaki was on the board of trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, the group that operates entity of Wikipedia. He has been an adviser of WikiTribune.

Kawasaki was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. He went to Stanford University and earned a degree in psychology. He also went to UCLA to get a business degree. He tried law school for a short time but did not like it.

 Career 
Kawasaki is best known for his work as the chief evangelist for Apple. He helped to popularize the Macintosh computer by convincing people to make and use software for it. He used the term "evangelism" to describe this type of marketing.
After working at Apple, he started other companies and wrote many books. Some of his books include The Art of the Start and Enchantment. He has also been a well-known public speaker and a member of the board of trustees for the Wikimedia Foundation, until December 2016. Today, he is the chief evangelist for Canva, an online design company.

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