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Guy Kawasaki: The Power of 'No Bull Shiitake'

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Guy Kawasaki on the Power of Twitter

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Co-founder of Garage Technology Ventures and original Apple employee Guy Kawasaki says out of all the social networking sites, he only has time for Twitter.

Kawasaki says he has made "literally thousands of friends online" and believes social networking "broadens your mind."
Guy Kawasaki Reveals He Had 'Help' Writing LinkedIn Post

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Co-founder of Garage Technology Ventures Guy Kawasaki admits he had a ghost writer for one of his most well circulated blog posts, "Ten Ways to Use LinkedIn."

Kawasaki says Kay Luo, Sr. Director of Corporate Communications at LinkedIn, helped write it because he didn't "really know how to use LinkedIn that well."

He laughs, "it was one of the most popular entries I ever wrote...or ever acted like I wrote."
Guy Kawasaki: Yahoo!, the One that Got Away

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Guy Kawasaki, venture capitalist and author of Reality Check and The Art of the Start, remembers when he let a job offer as CEO of Yahoo get away. He says, "I had the opportunity to...be the first adult at Yahoo!"

Kawasaki hypothesizes on the circumstances if he had taken the job, saying the choice cost him "roughly 2 billion dollars."
Guy Kawasaki: Steve Jobs Is a 'Hustler'

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Guy Kawasaki, co-founder of Garage Technology Ventures and original Apple employee, praises Steve Wozniak, but is harsh on Steve Jobs when asked about their leadership styles.

He says Jobs is a "hustler" who is "very demanding," "excessively truthful," and "gets the best out of you ... because people fear him."
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Jesse Richards

Posted: 09.19.09, 12:06 AM

Eight books? Anyone with the time to write 8 books has never produced anything real? Has GK ever been a successful CEO or Founder?

Burke Lambert

Posted: 09.18.09, 08:00 AM

What an arrogant tool!!

r2bowman

Posted: 09.02.09, 11:27 AM

Guy Kawasaki is a great guy to talk to about innovation. He wrote the foreward for Jeremy Gutsche's book 'Exploiting Chaos' and it's definitely worth reading for those who like Guy's work. You can preview it at www.exploitingchaos.com if you're interested.

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