Guy Kawasaki
Guy Kawasaki (born August 30, 1954) is an American venture capitalist.[1] In 1984, while working for Apple Inc., he helped market the original Apple Macintosh computer by recruiting people to write software for it. This was an early use of evangelism marketing.[2][3]
In 1987, Guy formed a Macintosh software company called ACIUS to publish the Fourth Dimension database product.
In March 2015, Kawasaki joined the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) Board of Trustees, the company responsible for Wikipedia.[4] His responsibilities at the Foundation have grown as that board worked through a leadership crisis surrounding the ultimate resignation of the Foundation's executive director. In April 2017, Kawasaki became an initial member of the Advisory Board for WikiTribune, a for-profit news organization founded by Jimbo Wales to compete with the WMF's WikiNews. Neither Wales nor Kawasaki took steps to address this conflict of interest.
Kawasaki has also written a number of books including The Art of Social Media (2014) and Database 101 (1991).
References
- ↑ Chris Cameron. "Weekend Reading: Guy Kawasaki Author Spotlight", Readwrite, February 26, 2010.
- ↑ Solis, Brian and Deirdre K. Breakenridge. Putting the Public Back in Public Relations: How Social Media Is Reinventing the Aging Business of PR. FT Press, 2009. p. 9.
- ↑ Frederic Lucas-Conwell (December 4, 2006). Technology Evangelists: A Leadership Survey. Growth Resources, Inc..
- ↑ https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Appointing_Guy_Kawasaki