TEDxHONOLULU - Brian Goldstein - Drive Switch Go: The Future Is Now

Brian is a seasoned executive with a proven track record in growing technology based organizations and leads the Better Place Hawai'i project. He has over 20 years experience in senior management, business development, sales, and marketing in the enterprise software, data warehousing, business intelligence, consumer internet, medical software, and biotechnology industries. Brian also serves as a Vice-Chair on the boards of Hawai'i High Technology Development Corporation (HTDC) and the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawai'i Authority (NELHA).



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[bannor99]

Shai Agassi is definitely head and shoulders above this guy and many, many other presenters. But that graph of Hawaii's oil imports speaks for itself.

[chri77777777]

@zlozlozlo Yeah - I agree totally ... I am a "Toasmaster" - and I am learning how to speak - but I still don't get it what it is that Shai is, at least to me, so outstanding ....

[zlozlozlo]

@chri77777777 sadly not everyone is a great public speaker. Shai Agassi has the good fortune of being an amazing public speaker, on top of being a brilliant solution integrator, entrepreneur and manager. This guy may be just as passionate as Shai is. But the intonation, the fluency, the gestures, the narrative power, the seamless expression of ideas, it's not there. It's something you can achieve by training to a certain degree, but really I think it's something you had to be born with.

[chri77777777]

I don't get it how Shai does what he does ... speaking with passion and sell the idea...

This guy uses the same stuff shai uses in his talks, but shai talks in another world ... just search "sha agassi" in youtube and see what I mean ...

[Magikarp4TW]

I wish this would come to New Zealand. The green image NZ boasts about is bull shit these days. We just had an election, and the National party plans on selling off conservation land to a mining company to make an open cast coal mine.

I know they have no interest in actually investing in the future, they care only for the now.

[julianchosun]

@froyboy4life I know what you mean, but i think it's just his speaking style, other than the fact that he's speaking to an audience within the US, which is probably the most oil-addicted culture on Earth, and the idea of electric vehicles could take a bit longer to catch on in areas unlike California and Rhode Island.

I went to Shanghai recently and was astounded by how many electric bicycles were being used. Maybe they were using electric cars too, but it's the bicycles you notice there. Cool!

[froyboy4life]

This guy talks like he's trying to sell something that should be hard to sell but to me the product seems like it should sell itself.