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'''Guy Kawasaki''' (born August 30, 1954) is an American [[venture capitalist]].<ref name=Cameron2010>{{cite news|title=Weekend Reading: Guy Kawasaki Author Spotlight|url=http://readwrite.com/2010/02/26/weekend-reading-guy-kawasaki|publisher=Readwrite|author=Chris Cameron|date=February 26, 2010}}</ref> In 1984, he helped market the original Apple Macintosh computer by recruiting people to write software for it. This was an early use of [[evangelism marketing]].<ref>Solis, Brian and Deirdre K. Breakenridge. [https://books.google.com/books?id=xLXinA8LbTMC&pg=PA9 ''Putting the Public Back in Public Relations: How Social Media Is Reinventing the Aging Business of PR'']. [[FT Press]], 2009. p. 9.</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Technology Evangelists: A Leadership Survey|url=https://www.gri.co/pub/res/pdf/TechEvangelist.pdf|publisher=Growth Resources, Inc.|author=Frederic Lucas-Conwell|date=December 4, 2006}}</ref>
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]] Board of Trustees, the company responsible for [[Wikipedia]].<ref>https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Appointing_Guy_Kawasaki</ref> 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.
Kawasaki has also written a number of books including ''The Art of Social Media'' (2014) and ''Database 101'' (1991)''.
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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]] Board of Trustees, the company responsible for [[Wikipedia]].<ref>https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Appointing_Guy_Kawasaki</ref> 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.
Kawasaki has also written a number of books including ''The Art of Social Media'' (2014) and ''Database 101'' (1991)''.
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[[Category:Liberals]]
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