What I Do
My title is “evangelist”. I tell my Grandmother that I’m a preacher.
The title was invented by Guy Kawasaki (the guy who made it cool to have a name like Joi Ito) at Apple. It’s long been a mainstay at Microsoft, and is becoming more popular in the industry. But it’s still hard to explain what we do.
Here is a new document that attempts to explain it: http://www.growthresourcesinc.com/TechEvan.pdf
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Sitting in the all-hands meeting for the evangelism team. Sanjay is talking about taking a short term hit of pain, do the right thing long term. That’s good. Evangelists get to think about ethics. We try to treat women well here; if you don’t like your team, join the team and come work with Beth!