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Many entrepreneurs think that starting your entrepreneurship means leaving your \\u2018Nine to Five\\u2019 job. And, it sure is. However, the technology revolution opens endless opportunities to reach faster, easier, and bigger successes through your entrepreneurship.

These five entrepreneurs made a considerable shift from their previous jobs to the entrepreneurship they chose to start. It allowed them to find much bigger opportunities that led to massive success.

Listen to their stories and think which of these opportunities can be a game-changer for your business.

Guy Kawasaki

From being a marketing and salesperson in the jewelry business, to become the chief evangelist of Apple, the chief evangelist of Canva, and the host of Remarkable People podcast.

Guy Kawasaki is the chief evangelist of Canva, an online graphic design tool, and the creator of Guy Kawasaki\\u2019s Remarkable People podcast.

He is a brand ambassador for Mercedes-Benz and an executive fellow of the Haas School of Business (UC Berkeley). He was the chief evangelist of Apple and a trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation. He is also the author of The Art of the Start 2.0, The Art of Social Media, Enchantment, and nine other books. Kawasaki has a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from UCLA as well as an honorary doctorate from Babson College.  

Guy\\u2019s Career

• My career really started in the jewelry business not tech. I started a part time job when I had my MBA in UCLA. I worked for a jewelry manufacture in down town LA. It was a small manufacturing company owned by a Jewish family and that\\u2019s where I learned sales and marketing. I worked there for about six years. I have a deep understanding and love for many Jewish things.
• I was in the jewelry business and then I got an Apple 2 and I fell in love with computers
• I worked for 6 months for a small software company that was acquired and my roommate eventually hired me into Apple. I went to work for Apple as evangelist, I left to start a company, and later returned to apple as Apple chief evangelist, and yet again left to start a company\\u2026 Basically; I\\u2019ve been in Apple twice and I\\u2019ve been an entrepreneur, speaker and author since then.

Biggest success due to the right customer approach

• I started at Canva when they were two years old. I think that from the get go they had a very good prototype. They truly understood the need of people, and Canva was growing like a rocket. I\\u2019m not taking credit for that, the credit belongs to the founders of Canva: Melanie Perkins and Cliff Obrecht.
• This is called Guy\\u2019s golden touch. So Guy\\u2019s golden touch is not whatever I touch turns to gold but whatever is gold, Guy touches\\u2026
• I\\u2019ve learned in my career that it\\u2019s better to be lucky than smart

Guy is hosting the Remarkable People podcast, weekly on Wednesday. Among his remarkable guests - Arianna Huffington, Martha Stewart, Steve Wozniak, Jane Goodall, and more.

Michael Stelzner

From being a writer to start a new revolutionary blog sharing free content (just because he managed to secure the domain) to launching the leading global conference for social media..

Michael Stelzner is the founder of Social Media Examiner, author of the books, Launch and Writing White Papers, and the man behind Social Media Marketing World\\u2013the industry\\u2019s largest conference. He\\u2019s also the host of the Social Media Marketing podcast, founder of the Social Media...'