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 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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MATE podcast is a show about Marketing, Advertising, Technology and Entrepreneurship. Hosted by Adam Jaffrey: Digital Strategist and Entrepreneur. Made with in Melbourne, Australia.