MATE 039 – How to build a life-size LEGO car powered by air, with Steve Sammartino (PART 1)

Steve Sammartino is a charismatic radio host, futurist, author, public speaker, entrepreneur, technology strategist and former advertising strategy director. Steve talks about his career successes and failures, what lead him to being a speaker, and how he teamed up with a teenager from Romania to build a functioning car made from Lego. This is the … Continue reading MATE 039 – How to build a life-size LEGO car powered by air, with Steve Sammartino (PART 1)

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Steve Sammartino is a charismatic radio host, futurist, author, public speaker, entrepreneur, technology strategist and former advertising strategy director.

Steve talks about his career successes and failures, what lead him to being a speaker, and how he teamed up with a teenager from Romania to build a functioning car made from Lego. This is the first instalment of an entertaining TWO-PART MATE Podcast episode. ENJOY!

Topics:

Do big businesses just pretend to love their customers?
Yesterday’s dollar Vs today’s dollar Vs tomorrow’s dollar
Being an entrepreneur as a child
Why Steve spent over a decade in a job that he didn’t really enjoy
Steve’s book ‘The Lessons School Forgot’
Steve’s startup business Rentoid
How Uber removed the friction of transactions
Steve’s move from being an entreprenuer to Director of Strategy and Innovation within the advertising industry, and his time working with Gray Advertising
How blogging lead Steve to becomning a published author
The story of a Romanian teenage boy who approached Steve about making a Lego car, and a Lego spaceship which was sent into orbit! This became The Super Awesome Micro Project
Steve’s book foray into public speaking
What goes into writing a book? How do you make things translate to the page? Steve breaks it down.
“Smartphone technology is very immature”

Links:

Steve Sammartino’s website
Purchase Steve Sammartino’s books:

The Great Fragmentation, by Steve Sammartino.
The Lessons School Forgot, by Steve Sammartino.

Sponsors:

Open Universities Australia

Special thanks:

Editing by Josh Armour, from ArmourPod Productions.
Podcast logo cover artwork by Courtney Carman
Theme music from “Ghosts I–IV” by Nine Inch Nails, used under a Creative Commons licence.
Ad music is called “Going Higher” by Bensound, used under a Creative Commons licence.
(Human beatboxing by Adam Jaffrey.)

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