#40 - Jay Samit | How to DISRUPT Yourself & Trillion Dollar Augmented Reality (AR) Revolution

Jay Samit is the author of the bestselling book Disrupt You! Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation.

Jay Samit and I talk about the beginning critical steps to disrupt your own life and have an impact on this world as well as the emerging field of augmented and virtual reality that is posed to be up to a trillion dollar industry.

Described by Wired Magazine as having “the coolest job in the industry” and “a new media guru and Internet pioneer” by the Economic Times, author Jay Alan Samit is a dynamic entrepreneur who is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading experts on disruption and innovation.

He launches billion dollar businesses, transforms entire industries, revamps government institutions, and for over three decades continues to be at the forefront of global trends. Everyone from the Pope to the President calls on Samit to orchestrate positive change in this era of endless innovation. Helped grow multi-billion dollar juggernauts such as eBay and LinkedIn pre-IPO.

Samit held executive roles at Sony and Universal Studios, pioneered breakthrough advancements in mobile video, internet advertising, e-commerce, social networks, ebooks, and digital music that are used by billions of consumers every day. Samit accurately predicts the future because he is constantly working with those who create it.

An adjunct professor at USC, Samit teaches innovation at America’s largest engineering school. He is a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal and host of its documentary series WSJ Startup of the Year. Samit frequently appears on ABC, Bloomberg, CBS, CNN, Fox, MSNBC, and NBC.

An expert on transformational corporate change, Samit has been quoted in The New York Times, The Economist, Businessweek, Forbes, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Fast Company and TechCrunch.

Humans 2.0 Podcast Questions:
1:56 - How do you spend your time on Planet Earth?
2:08 - Jay Samit's Origin Story
4:22 - Austrian Story of Individual Empowerment
6:20 - Self Awareness, Write down 99 Problems
11:00 - Gratitude and Appreciation for being Alive in 2018
15:00 - Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality Technology Future
19:15 - The most Interesting Use case of Immersive AR
22:30 - What year will mixed reality become mainstream?
25:10 - Virtual Reality Industry (more limited use cases)
26:30 - What other technologies will integrate with VR/AR?
31:30 - Will all jobs eventually become obsolete?
33:20 - Is there anything you wish you knew when you were younger?
35:30 - What are you going to focus on in the next 5-10 years in the world.

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DISRUPT You! - https://www.amazon.com/Disrupt-You-Transformation-Opportunity-Innovation/dp/1250059372

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