Apple's Original Evangelist, Guy Kawasaki: Why Most Founders Fail Before They Even Pitch

About this episode

Guy Kawasaki discusses the challenges founders face before pitching their ideas.

Guy Kawasaki: Don't Pitch What You Can't Believe In Guy Kawasaki: Apple's original software evangelist, Chief Evangelist at Canva, host of the Remarkable People podcast, and bestselling author of Think Remarkable, Wise Guy, and his upcoming Everybody Has Something to Hide , joins Jessica Neal on Truth Works for a conversation that goes everywhere you didn't expect. Guy didn't have a plan. He fainted on his first day of a pre-med hospital tour, dropped out of law school after two weeks, a...

People in this episode

Host: Jessica Neal

Guest: Guy Kawasaki

Topics covered

• entrepreneurship
• founder challenges
• personal stories
• business advice
• innovation

Keywords

• Guy Kawasaki
• founders
• pitching
• entrepreneurship
• business advice

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Apple, Canva

Books & works: Think Remarkable, Wise Guy, Everybody Has Something to Hide

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