What you learn in school is the opposite of what happens in the real world. In school, you're always worried about minimums. You have to reach 20 pages or you have to have so many slides or whatever. Then you get out in the real world and you think, 'I have to have a minimum of 20 pages and 50 slides.'

He was a co-founder of Garage Technology Ventures a venture capital firm that has made investments in Pandora TripWire The Motley Fool and D. Guy Kawasaki (born August 30 1954) is a Silicon Valley author speaker and advisor to Motorola. in psychology from Stanford University in 1976.

He was also a co-founder of Garage Technology Ventures and a news aggregation site called Alltop. He is well-known as a speaker having keynoted TEDxHarkerSchool 2011.