Reflection 3: Guy Kawasaki Video
The video that was assigned by our instructor to view and make some reflections was all about the words of wisdom by Guy Kawasaki. First and foremost, let me describe this person as a part of this essay. Guy Kawasaki is a Technopreneur and the first Technology Evangelist as what the speaker from smart told us while we were in the Boot Camp conducted by Idea Space Company and sponsored by Smart Telecommunications. The speaker was sure about what he was saying. Then I tried to find his name in google and then I found out that he was born in Hawaii in August 30, 1954. He is also a successful Silicon Valley capitalist. He was also hired by the Apple Company which was founded by Steve Jobs. He is currently a Managing Director of Garage Technology Ventures, and has been involved in the rumor reporting site Truemors and the RSS aggregation Alltop.
To continue, let me proceed to my reflections about the Guy Kawasaki video that I recently watched. Last October 20 in the year 2004, Guy Kawasaki had a video interview pertaining to the core and essentials of being a technopreneur. He said in the first part that technopreneurship is about making meanings. If I base my opinion, I would rather say that technopreneurship is about making difference. When we make difference, we are always come up with good or bad ideas that would grant our desires to make something new or something fresh technologies that may change our lives. As what Guy Kawasaki said in the interview, many people around the globe start companies to make money for their own or for a better purpose. He also said that it is fundamentally founded to change the world to make the world a better place. Yes, it is definitely true for me because the world needs to change every now and then. Better to have the technology that were invented before to be innovated in the sense that we people trying to come up with better, futuristic and upgraded technologies to help our country or the world to be a better place to live. Sir Guy also told that whoever makes meaning of the companies that make a difference, they are the companies to succeed. If you make meaning, you would probably make money. But if you set out to make money, you wouldn’t probably make meaning and you won’t make money as what he have said during the interview of his video.
His first thought was “You have to make meaning”. He was generally emphasized that phrase to make us technopreneurs to be motivated and if we try to remember that phrase, we must set our priorities and do our responsibilities as a human being and a member of our society. The phrase that I mentioned a while ago must be the core to start a new company.
He also included and explained the three ways to make meaning. While the video was running to capture his body gestures and motion, he said that one of the ways to make meaning was to Increase the quality of Life. So what would be the meaning that would satisfy this statement? If I would use my own common senses, I would probably say that increasing the quality of life is like making your life more productive in any circumstances that you may able to encounter as you try to keep your journey straight forwarded. He was in the Macintosh Company where apple and Mac Operating Systems was invented by the deceased person Steve Jobs. I would say that we are not motivated to make money; we are motivated by changing the world to make people more creative and more productive.
“There are things to increase the quality of life”. He also added this as a way to make meaning. He said to the interview that he was so optimistic of having a good spirit by waking up every morning and he also said that he was always thingking of how they could change people’s lives. For me, that’s definitely true and I agree with Guy Sebastian. There must be a thing to increase the quality of life by creating new ideas that would definitely be an essence of making money. I was a little bit inspired or motivated about what have he said in this video. Guy Kawasaki was also a great technopreneur that has a lot of skills that would really help our society and even the students that are still studying in their respective universities.
The next one that he has said was to make right a wrong. Guy Kawasaki also cited some of the problems that were so hard to deal with. When you found something wrong and you want to fix this that you see something beautiful and wonderful and you cannot stand the fact that the road is being changed and ruined. You must put a solution here so that you can make the wrong to become right. For me, I was also thinking that why we would do the thing that if you found already that the right must not remain its figure. Like for example, the “Right” is the old vacuum and all you need to know that what if I would change the right to be wrong and then if we found a better solution to our dilemmas, that would be the time that we must change the wrong to right as it goes to the process of being successful in everything that we are doing. He also added that if you are trying to make a company then you must not really on to your families, friends and even the person inside the congregation of the church.
There was a tag line that he said from the video that he recorded was this: "If you haven’t had one of those motivations yet, You must re think the key to start an organization". So in conclusion, all of us must try to follow and remember well the 3 ways to make meaning and core and essentials of being an technopreneur.
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