I’m catching up on AmandaAcrossAmerica, and found her interview with one of my heroes, Guy Kawasaki (Part 1 / Part 2:
- It takes ego to change the world.
- Guy likes to know what people are writing about him, but he doesn’t read blogs (headline of this post comes from this section of the interview)
- He’s obsessed with watches.
- “I don’t want to be the next person. I want to fund the next person.”
- “Failure is a good thing.”
- The companies that have changed the world, failed the three-point VC test (No proven team, no proven business model, no proven technology), such as Yahoo!, Cisco and Google.
- If it takes 30 minutes to explain the problem, it’s not a problem.
- Missed opportunity is what keeps a VC up at night, not bad investments.
[tags]guy kawasaki, venture capital[/tags]
Those were good interviews… Care to elaborate on why Guy is your hero?
Very smart businessman.
Must be if he watched the historic rise of the Macintosh from the inside and is now a Venture Capitalist… I like that he started playing hockey at 48. I haven’t played for a year and now I’m 38. I’m thinking I still have time!