Disney CEO Bob Iger is a 4.30 (kind of) guy.

[diamondcutter]

Tim Cook gets up at 3.45 a.m. Pepsi CEO Indra Nooyi gets up at 4 a.m. Disney CEO Bob Iger is a 4.30 kind of guy. Jack Dorsey sleeps in until 5.30. So does my buddy Richard Branson.
Source: https://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/if-y...uroscience-says-please-stop-trying-to-be.html

Disney CEO Bob Iger is a 4.30 kind of guy.

For the sentence above, does it still make sense in the context if the two words “kind of” are removed like this?

Disney CEO Bob Iger is a 4.30 guy.

 

[jutfrank]

This is a fixed expression:

a _____ kind of guy
a _____ kind of gal

 

[5jj]

For the sentence above, does it still make sense in the context if the two words “kind of” are removed like this?

Yes.

 

[Tdol]

It makes sense, but the original is better as a description of the person.