Steve Sammartino

Steve Sammartino is an Australian futurist, author and entrepreneur.

Sharing economy

According to Forbes, Sammartino launched Rentoid in 2007, one of the early sharing-economy,[1] peer-to-peer online hire and rental marketplaces.[2][2] Rentoid was featured in Rachel Botsman[3] and Roo Rogers’s book What’s Mine is Yours: How Collaborative Consumption is Changing the Way We Live. Rentoid was later sold to an ASX listed company in 2014.[4]

Experimental Projects

According to the World Records Academy,[5] Sammartino collaborated with Raul Oiada in 2011 to launch the world’s first Lego Space Shuttle into space. Propelled by a helium-filled weather balloon, the Lego Space Shuttle[6] model 3367 was launched from German airspace into the stratosphere to an altitude of about 35,000 meters (114,800 feet).[6][7] According to Wired and ABC,in 2013 Sammartino and Oaida developed the world's first life-sized,[8] drive-able Lego car with a compressed air-powered Lego engine.[9][10][11][12]

Books
  1. The Great Fragmentation: And Why the Future of Business Is Small (Wiley, 2014) - ISBN 978-0730312680
  2. The Lessons School Forgot: How to Hack Your Way Through the Technology (Wiley, 2017) ISBN 978-0730343202
gollark: I've attempted to breed the 29G messy aeon (29G messy aeon. 29G messy aeon) with one of the "2Gs" but got no egg.
gollark: It would be a disservice to not use it correctly.
gollark: 29G. Messy. Aeon.
gollark: I'd possibly influence it to breed with my 29G messy aeon.
gollark: Imagine if someone won the raffle then caught an AP CB prize.

References
  1. Geron, Tomio. "The Unstoppable Rise Of The Share Economy". Forbes. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
  2. "Rentoid Wants To Be The Place For Renting Anything". TechCrunch. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
  3. Rachel, Botsman; Roo, Rogers (September 2010). What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption. HarperCollins Publishers. p. 72. ISBN 9780061963551.
  4. "QNA Expands Its Collaborative Consumption Marketplace With Acquisition of Rentoid.com" (PDF). Australian Securities Exchange. 5 May 2014. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
  5. "First Lego Shuttle Sent into Space: Raul Oaida sets world record (Video)". www.worldrecordacademy.com. World Record Academy. 26 March 2012. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
  6. "Lego space shuttle heads for final frontier". NewsComAu. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
  7. "Footscray man Steve Sammartino says 'anything is possible' after building full-sized working car from Lego". Herald Sun. Retrieved 19 September 2018.
  8. "Product Innovation in a hyper connected world The Australian Maker Movement" (PDF). Deloitte. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
  9. Wakefield, Jane (19 December 2013). "Crowd-funded Lego car powered by air". BBC News. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
  10. Lavrinc, Damon. "One Tweet Funded This Full-Size, Air-Powered Lego Hot Rod". Wired. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
  11. "The world's first life-sized, driveable Lego car has hit the streets of Melbourne". 23 Dec 2013. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
  12. "Lego car hits the bricks in Australia". Reuters. Reuters. 24 December 2013. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
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