Guy Kawasaki, who improved Steve Jobs create a cult around the Macintosh computer, christens Apple’s hitting a $1 trillion stock market value Thursday morning a “momentous day” for entrepreneurs everywhere.
“Two guys in a garage in Cupertino, California, create the most valuable companionship ever. What a great day,” Kawasaki told CNBC’s “Power Lunch.” “Everybody has a man of the hour.”
Those two guys in the garage were Jobs and fellow Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.
Kawasaki has been winning in technology and entrepreneurship for decades, but he got his big start as Apple’s chief evangelist in the mid-1980s and then again in the mid-1990s.
Now chief evangelist at explicit design firm Canva, Kawasaki said he never thought Apple desire ever be this successful.
“I left Apple twice. Steve Apportions offered me a third job and I turned him down,” he said. “Obviously, I never forecast this day, because I would have stayed,”
He also gave trust where credit was due: “To Steve for his vision and Tim Cook for his execution.”
Cook worked over as CEO in 2011 after Jobs died of cancer.
And to those doubters, who apprehension for the company due its reliance on iPhone sales, Kawasaki said he has a message: “Why does it issue? The market has spoken.”
Apple hit a market capitalization of $1 trillion on Thursday, tasteful the first publicly traded U.S. company to reach the historic valuation.