You may know that I love cars, and if you didn’t, you do now. Today’s guest is Doug DeMuro, who not only loves cars, but he has made this passion the foundation of his success and career. Doug received an economics degree from Emory University in Atlanta. After graduation, he spent three years working for Porsche Cars North America. Doug created a Youtube channel in 2013 with a focus on cars, and he now has more than 4 million subscribers His videos have received over one and a half billion views. Doug is also an entrepreneur. He started an automotive online auction site called Cars and Bids. It focuses on cars from the 1980s. Currently, Doug lives in San Diego with his 1997 Land Rover Defender 90, 2005 Ford GT, 2012 Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG Wagon, and his dog Noodle.
Esther Dyson is the executive founder of Wellville, a 10-year national nonprofit project aimed at achieving equitable wellbeing for people . She is a leading angel investor focused on health care, open government, digital technology, biotechnology, and outer space. During the personal computer days, when I was Apple in the 1980s, she was the most powerful and prestigious analyst in the business. She was a king and queen maker. You prayed that she’d cover your product in her newsletter, Release 1.0 or invited you to her conference, but you feared a negative review or getting drilled on stage. People like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, if they didn’t fear her, at the very least, realized they better suck up to her. She may not even realize how intimidating she was back then. Esther is the daughter of physicist Freeman Dyson and mathematician Verena Huber-Dyson. She obtained her bachelors in economics from Harvard, She is the author of the bestselling book, Release 2.0: A Design for Living in the Digital Age.
Margaret O’Mara is an expert on high-tech history and a Howard & Frances Keller Endowed Professor of History at the University of Washington. She received her BA in English and History from Northwestern University, and her MA and PhD in History from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to her academic career, she was a staff member to President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore, where she was a policy analyst – working on urban economic development, health care, and welfare reform. Margaret is the author of The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America, which was a Financial Times and Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019. She is also the author of Cities of Knowledge, Pivotal Tuesdays, and the co-author to the college history textbook, The American Pageant. She is a frequent contributor to the Opinion page of The New York Times, and she has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, BBC World News, and PBS Frontline.
Gloria Romero is joining Guy Kawasaki on this week's Remarkable People podcast! Gloria is the author of Just Not That Likable: The Price All Women Pay for Gender Bias which shatters the glass ceiling in a sweeping takedown of gender bias at the workplace and the price women and society pay for the virulent, double standard of “the likability factor” that persists in the workplace. She exposes the link between success and likability that 21st-century women leaders face in politics and the workplace. Fantastic episode ahead!
John Biewen is a journalist and documentarian. He directs the audio program at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University where he produces the two-time Peabody Award–nominated podcast, Scene on Radio, This podcast dares to ask the hard questions. It goes deep and covers topics such as: What is the origin of racism? What’s up with white people? Why is it important to examine our dubious past? Are we at the end of democracy? Do you think there will be a civil war? Is there still time to save ourselves? Let’s just say that it’s a good thing that I don’t have self-governing status in Florida. If you know what I mean. John is also the co-editor of the book Reality Radio: Telling True Stories in Sound, and has produced for the, This American Life, Studio 360, American RadioWorks, and the BBC World Service.
Dominic Lieven is an award-winning historian and scholar. He was a lecturer, senior lecturer, and professor at the London School of Economics from 1978 to 2011. He was head of the department of government there from 2001 to 2004 and head of the department of international history from 2009-2011. Dominic graduated from Cambridge University, where he graduated top of the class. He was also a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard University. He has been an Honorary Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge since 2019. Other honors include being a Fellow of the British Academy and an Honorary Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences. His new book is IN THE SHADOW OF THE GODS: The Emperor in World History, In it he examines the strengths and weaknesses of the emperors and empresses who ran and shaped our world. It is an intimidating tome that examines leadership and power through history around the world. What a perfect guest for these insane times. This episode is a short course in European history and dysfunction. He explains the situation in Ukraine as few people in the world can. He also applies his knowledge to the current situation in the United States.
This week's remarkable person is Dr. Jennifer Kerns, an OBGYN and associate professor at the University of California San Francisco. The news of a potential overturn of Roe v. Wade has sent shockwaves across the nation, with many people taking to the streets in protest. The implications of such a decision are dire, as it could endanger the lives of those seeking medical care and set a dangerous precedent for further attacks on reproductive rights. Dr. Kerns answered many tough questions and I think it will help educate many people. Please share far and wide.
Zoe Chance is a behavioral scientist at the Yale School of Management and one of its most popular instructors. She worked her way up from telemarketing and door-to-door sales to managing Mattel’s Barbie brand’s $200 million business to Yale. Zoe’s research has been published in The New York Times, BBC, The Economist, and the Harvard Business Review. Her popular TEDx talk, “How to Make a Behavior Addictive,” has over 600,000 views. Zoe received her doctorate degree from Harvard, her MBA from the University of Southern California, and her bachelor’s degree from Haverford College. Zoe’s latest book is called Influence Is Your Superpower: The Science of Winning Hearts, Sparking Change, and Making Good Things Happen. If you are a Bob Cialdini or Katy Milkman fan, you’ll love this book. This is the longest episode of Remarkable People because it overfloweth with practical and tactical advice about influencing, persuading, and change. I tried to find stuff to cut, but I couldn’t. What can I say?
Great conversation on Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People with Frederick Joseph, philanthropist, activist, and New York Times best-selling author. In this episode, you’ll see how little Guy knows about current black culture, but at least he knows what he doesn't know. And he's willing to learn. Frederick Joseph created the largest GoFundMe campaign in history called the #BlackPantherChallenge. It raised over $950K, and allowed more than 75,000 children worldwide to see 'Black Panther’ for free. Frederick was a national surrogate for the Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders presidential campaigns and was selected for the Forbes Under 30 List in 2019. Fred is the New York Times bestselling author of The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person, and his new book, PATRIARCHY BLUES: Reflections on Manhood. The Black Friend is fantastic.
Marshall Goldsmith is the most famous executive coach in the world. He has worked with some of the highest-profile leaders including the CEOs of Pfizer, Ford, Best Buy, and the World Bank. Marshall is the only two-time winner of the Thinkers 50 Award for #1 Leadership Thinker in the World, and he has been ranked as the #1 Executive Coach in the World. Marshall is the author of What Got You Here Won’t Get You There and Triggers. Amazon named both the books to its Top 100 Leadership & Success Books Ever Written list. Marshall’s new book is THE EARNED LIFE; Lose Regret, Choose Fulfillment. It explains no less than what you should do with your life before you reach the end of it. In short, are about to hear advice that the most powerful executives in the world pay tens of thousands of dollars for. And last but not least, Marshall and I negotiated my adoption in this episode. I hope he’s aware of how many surfboards I need every year.