Growth, Grit, and Grace: Guy Kawasaki on Building a Remarkable Life

On this episode of The Coral Capital Podcast, we were joined by the Chief Evangelist of Canva for a candid conversation about grit, growth, and the unfiltered story behind his remarkable career.

Also in the conversation:

• The Silicon Valley myth that keeps getting mistaken for strategy

• What Apple got right (and still gets wrong) about AI

• How Canva is spreading design literacy globally

• Why your ikigai doesn’t need to be world-changing to be real

Plus: Guy opens up about fainting on hospital rounds, quitting law school after two weeks, and how a ride in a Porsche 911 lit a fire under him to work hard and aim higher.

If you're working on something ambitious, we’d love to hear from you at Coral Capital!

Connect with Guy:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/guykawasaki/

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tiffanykayo/

Get in touch with us here: bit.ly/contactcoral

00:00 Trailer

00:58 Introduction

01:41 Hawaii

02:40 Childhood and upbringing

06:49 Ohana, aloha and motivation

10:41 Working at Apple

15:01 Bringing the good news

19:28 The ecosystem VC

21:26 Evangelism in marketing

27:13 Growth, grit, grace

36:38 Artificial intelligence

42:19 Cutting through the noise

44:09 Book updates

46:23 What is your ikigai?

47:42 Outro

Mentioned in this episode: Kalihi Elementary School, Apple, Standford Medical Center, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), World War 2, Porsche 1911, OpenAI ChatGPT, Canva, Adobe Photoshop, Guy Kawasaki’s Remarkable People, Jane Goodall, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Stephen Wolfram, Mark Manson, Signal, Anthropic Claude, Perplexity, Apple Intelligence, TikTok