A magnificent cause can overcome a prickly personality, but your ability to enchant people increases if they like you, so you should aspire to both. You’ll know that you’re likeable when you can communicate freely, casually, and comfortably with people.

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.