Indian businesses need not be American ripoffs: Guy Kawasaki, Chief Evangelist Canva

With issues ranging from why India needs to stop copying Silicon Valley to how to tackle fake news and what evangelism means, Guy Kawasaki spoke to Indrajit Hazra on several issues.

Sitting at the coffee shop of Taj Palace in Delhi, former chief evangelist of Apple, currently of the free graphic-design website Canva, Silicon Valley venture capitalist, automobile nut, and surfer – of Californian waves, and not just of the Internet – 64-year-old Guy Kawasaki quips about also being a ‘prodigy’. Kawasaki goes on to explain: What is the job of an ‘evangelist’? “It’s really the purist form of sales — the bringer of good news of a product or service.