Why Toys Matter | Phil Sage | TEDxWellington

How toys create leaders of the future and ultimately make the world a better place to live in.
Discovering and innovating the world’s best play experiences, Phil’s craft is channelled through building next-generation leaders, new processes and industry-best products.
A toy designer and technologist with a passion for driving incremental business, his career talents and curiosity were evident at a young age. Compiling RC car motors, shing wire and batteries into elaborate duct tape bound lawnmowers, his love affair with the most magical of industries has spanned 15+ years.
He is constantly innovating, evolving his global philosophy of partnering with the world’s experts and bringing the best opportunities to market which ignite consumers’ creativity and imagination.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@ImJustFelix]

This guy was incredible. Meeting him blew me away.

[@khfir6209]

i was expecting he will tell me how is a life as toy designer.

[@tanishqarora9115]

Really really awesome!

[@raideduela]

Whats that app called he presented?

[@zwilliams331]

Congratulations. For years I have submitted many fresh new ideas to the major toy companies but they all seem stuck in a mindset of just re-hashing great innovations that were created in the distant past. As a minority individual, trying to get venture capital under how it is currently structured (Of the over $140 billion dollars allotted out yearly less than 1% goes to minority startups.) makes it nearly impossible to bring our ideas to market for all the toy buyers to enjoy while the mega toy companies capitalize over this great disadvantage that we have in this case.
Hopefully things will change somewhere down the road.
Toy fans who want respectful inclusion from the companies that we give our dollars to please check out MGA Entertainment’s (Toy company) own CZcams promotional video entitled ‘Welcome to MGA Entertainment’. Notice the stark lack of diversity of their management and their employees. The color scale represented is light cream color skin to lighter. To the Asians American employees (Who are no longer the silent minority), of all the many dolls that this company has produced, where is the one doll that truly represents you since Bratz? Please read comment section of that video.

[@nicolastime3527]

:)