Guy Kawasaki on startup metrics, mistakes, and enchantment

Only because this interview is pretty pithy, what has Guy succeeded at in the past, oh, five years? He's starting to strike me as someone who is famous for being famous. Of course there's the Mac, but that was a long time ago now. You might as well ask Joni James what advice she has for musicians of today.

Not to be snarky, but I won't read anything by this guy. Back in the 90s when I subscribed to Forbes magazine he had a column for a couple of years, and he consistently wrote the most content-free columns I've ever tried to read. It's a tribute to something not-very-good that he makes a living as a pundit.

Feel the non-love at HN! I thought I was the only one who thought this way about Guy. I'm glad I'm not alone

I love the way he completely non-answered the specific question about a startup he'd been involved with by hand waving about "It's hard for everyone".

"I’ve never seen a company come close to its conservative, worst-case forecast. In fact, now I take a company’s forecast and add one year to the delivery date and divide by 100 as an estimate of what will actually happen. "

What does this even mean? Any social capital Guy Kawasaki had by being at Apple in the early days has been burnt up (in my eyes) by what he does now. Hand-wavy, frothy, exploiter.