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10 things you need to know about tech evangelist Guy Kawasaki    

By John Egan on Dec 30, 2014

With more than 6.7 million followers on Google+, 1.4 million on Twitter and 270,000 on Facebook, tech evangelist, author, venture capitalist, entrepreneur and speaker Guy Kawasaki definitely knows his way around social media. But just because you know him through Google+, Twitter or Facebook doesn’t mean you truly know him. Kawasaki, who will be a keynote speaker at the upcoming Email Evolution Conference, joined Australia-based startup Canva as chief evangelist and as an investor in April 2014. Canva provides an online tool for graphic design. “Evangelism is when you have the other person’s best interests at heart. Sales is when you have your best interests at heart,” Kawasaki recently said in a Q&A on Reddit. Kawasaki is perhaps best known for his roles as chief evangelist at Apple and a

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