Kawasaki: I rejected an interview for Yahoo CEO because of the commute
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Guy Kawasaki, former Apple chief evangelist and author, discusses major career decisions and missed opportunities with host Jeff Berman.
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“Michael Moritz. The Michael Moritz of Sequoia. He called me after I left Apple, and he said, guy, I have a company down here by Stanford. I want you to interview for the CEO position. And I said, Mike, what's the company's name? And he told me the name. I looked him up, and I said, you know, Mike, I have one son now. I have one more in the shoot. And driving from San Francisco where we live to where this company was, it would be like at least two hours a day round trip. I just don't want to drive that much. I just don't want to, you know, take myself away from my family. So I would have been the CEO of Yahoo. So by my calculation that costs about two billion dollars.”
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