I ask a friend to buy the book “The art of the start” and send it to me. He was told that it was the last piece they had. phew!

I leave at 6:30pm for Oberoi. I reach and as usual i go to Trident and am told to take the stairs and blah blah to go to Oberoi.

At the reception i ask Trupti if she can connect me to Guy’s room as i wanted to get his autograph. She was sweet enough to connect me to his room but alas there was no reply. Thankfully I knew his partner’s name “William” and Trupti connected me to him. Told him that i had met Guy yest and told him i will be coming to the hotel for his autograph. He was kind enough to tell me that he will inform him and that he might be taking a nap…

So i kept the book at the reception and my wait started. Thanks to Netra i knew that he was checking out at around 8:30pm and Bingo around 8:45pm he was there to checkout.

I walked upto him and introduced myself again. Glad that he remembered. Got the autograph took a pic and left with a big smile on my face!

Kunal Sheth & Guy Kawasaki

As i was leaving i checked what he had written… it read

“Kunal

Change the World!

G Kawasaki

9/11/08″

Kunal, Change the World!

A couple of years back on the same day the world did change

I hope i can change it for better

Cheers!

Sept 10th: I had decided that i will follow the tweets religiously to figure out whats happening. Was surprised that Guy Kawasaki was at pinstorm! Wanted to call Asfaq and Netra if I can drop in for a bit

The tweet meet was happening at Oberoi @ 7pm. Thanks to Netra who had arranged for everything and kept the entire community in loop. I ran from bookshop to bookshop to get my hands on “The Art of the Start” but no one had it. That was really disappointing coz i was reallly looking forward to get his autograph.

The meet was alright. Didnt get the Gyan which I guess everyone was expecting. Guy talked a lot about Alltop and how twitter was helping him reach out and spread the word.  For Guy Alltop was most gratifying after macintosh. He did clear some myths that he was among the first few employees.

Some things i clearly remember from the 2 hour odd meet…

Evangelism comes from the greek word which means Spread the good message/word.

Guy is hooked to Posterous and loves the fact that you can just email it and viola its live and that it automatically creates slideshows and that you can send any kind of file be it mp3/video or plain jpegs.

Manan asked if there was any bad blood between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. Guy said there was nothing really like that and that apple depended a lot on MS Office and the relation between the two were cordial.

“Enemies are less important to one as one gets Old”

Which made so much sense. That got me thinking and i was like o yeah its true lot of people i really hated earlier i was pretty ok and cordial with them now.

Also there was a small discussion on whether people love to follow up through RSS feeds or Email. 1500 off people have subscribed for email alerts of Guy’s blog and around 181,000 for RSS feed updates. But Guy doesnt agree or trust the numbers thrown by feedburner.

Some trivia: Nah he doesnt get any product free from apple. But he does get some discounts and doesnt have to wait up in a Q for the iphone

If you are listed on alltop.com and are spreading the good word about it chances are you will move up the ranks easily.

After the meetup it was great eating pizzas at Pizzeria with Manan, Aditya, Asfaq, Netra, Mitesh and gang!

Truly a fantastic day!

Cheers!