Guy Kawasaki

Guy Kawasaki is one of those rare figures who shaped how an entire generation thinks about technology and evangelism — and I mean that literally, since he basically invented the role of "chief evangelist" at Apple in the early 1980s, championing the Macintosh with a fervor that felt almost religious. Born in Honolulu and educated at Stanford, he went on to write a string of genuinely useful books on entrepreneurship, starting businesses, and the art of the pitch. What I appreciate about him is that he never coasted on the Apple halo: he built Garage.com, became a VC, and reinvented himself as a social media voice long before most Silicon Valley veterans figured out Twitter. He's the guy who told entrepreneurs the truth about pitching, funding, and shipping — and made it entertaining. A Silicon Valley original who earned every room he walked into.

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Name (English)

Guy Kawasaki

Name (Japanese)

ガイ・カワサキ

Reading

がい・かわさき

Born

August 30, 1954 (age 72)

Origin

Honolulu, United States

Occupation

entrepreneur / businessperson / merchant / author / social media manager

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Horse

University

Stanford University

• Official sitehttps://www.guykawasaki.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/guykawasaki/
• Xhttps://x.com/GuyKawasaki
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy%20Kawasaki
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AC%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%83%AF%E3%82%B5%E3%82%AD
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q507469

Tags

• entrepreneur
• businessperson
• merchant

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.