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Connessioni (im)possibili | Giovanni De Lisi | TEDxOrtygia


[Music]
here we are, I am telling you all today
the story the story of a boy who a
16 years decides that he wanted to do business
my personal story that is made by
time the effort to transform those
that were considered impossible things
in possible things
it’s a story and perseverance that it has
Following a vision and that and succeeded
to complete thanks to the
connections to the contaminations that are
managed to get along with mine
route
I was already looking forward to 16 years
looked forward my life I looked at the
my life 30 years today in or 32 e
we begin to think that I wanted to create
something of mine
create something revolutionary but a
16 years the carefree age
obviously he did not wear me I did not have
not even the experience at that age for
understand where in what sector I wanted to
to do, however, I already knew
inside of me that I would not have left to
others decide what to do in my life
I was also rejected second
I did not say second year of high school
first true but I was rejected
equally and the course of study is only
a path of its troubled because it is
because I always looked at those who gave me
indications with remora non non
I wanted someone to tell me what
then make the time come
of the university which is the moment most
difficult for a boy because the
when you really have to decide
what to do in your life and I still do not
I had decided first engineering faculty
management of the first at the first examination in
itinere of analysis 1 mathematics 1 the
professor enters the classroom with one
t-shirt with a minimum written 7 mine
university colleague and asks the
professor what does minimum mean 7
minimum 7 times before passing
I took my backpack or closed them
free or run away from the university
I came home but I tell my mother
mom change faculty and maybe
rightly he says why I lose too much
management engineering time I would lose
too much time I did not want to waste time
so I decided to enroll down
hope from the first six exams is a certainty
I make a reflection on the account
years before arriving in the world of
I work and I understand that I would not have
earned one euro from jurisprudence
before the age of 28 up to 28 years old
I would have been with an economic stability
I have to stay behind Mum and Dad again
and that’s what I do not want again
escapes escapes university and this
When I say I want to work my I
I want to do business my father had one
small construction company
railway maintenance and construction
of railway lines and here I wonder a
he going to work with him but not
imagine that he gave me one
desk or a star seat behind a
comfortable warm office gave me gloves
safety shoes helmets suit
from construction and sent me a thousand
miles to my home
arsizio bust in a building site
I was a worker for 19 to 25
years
my full role in the construction site was
July there were thirty degrees in the shade
my role was to weld the rails
1800 degrees thermal aluminum welds
steel casting mine turn me in
holiday i only work business today
I thank my father because they gave me
the possibility of learning a trade
to have an experience that has brought me
in a totally new context
unknown
for me it was the construction site world
stay in touch with people totally
different from me with a difference of
age up to 26 when I decide that
I wanted to create something for me the phase
of the fundamental life of a man in
a woman in whom the foundations are laid
of life are from 16 to 25 then from 25
the lancet begins to do
take the time of maturity e
so I’m already 26 years old I already felt
old and I still called created
something of mine then one day
the illumination
the idea of ​​revolutionizing a sector the
of railway sleepers sector
railway sleepers are those
structures that make up the tracks
in ancient times it was in wood today
standard is made up of the sleepers in
concrete still not considered
these concrete structures are
been engineered in 1900
today we go on trains on one
structure a railway superstructure
engineered in the early twentieth century
this structure and create high costs of
maintenance and I understand that there was one
gap in this market
he looked at those who were the mega trends
of the sector the green economy the sirco
of the recycling of raw materials
so the second raw materials create
products that can give a future
sustainable to the community and from there
I put my start up so I was not
engineer I’m looking for skills
I look for the skills I
next to an industrial designer who
together with me to design the crossbar
green ray in 2012 make up mine
start up at a time when you start
up did not talk about it
I always say I did not make one
start up I wanted to set up a company
but everything you see here I do it
I also translate in luck having had the
vision to put on the market a
right product at the right time in the
right historical moment today that i
levels and patented in 80 countries in
world
is an engineered product we supply you
various countries in the world and is 32 years old and today
I’m in charge of a team that is strong
growth
and all this was possible thanks
to the vision I had when I was
16 years that is to say in mine
life I want to leave the mark
I did not want to be in my life
only the two euros of my body like
lorenzo said then what I did I have
tried the best skills are
party I went out to Sicily
I moved to Milan is mine
start up I was incubated I had the
lucky to be able to start the
Polytechnic University of Milan to support us
because the politician of Milan because he was
the fifth best research center in
europe in the railway sector
how I created the connection I have it
desired and I created it I wrote to
five university centers a mail me
they answered only in three but not
the polytechnic that was what I wanted
I did not get knocked down
I took a flight I went there I have
knocked on the door
we are presented I have tried to
convince them
I convinced them today we are among the
start-up flagship of the Milan Polytechnic
I started to participate in all
what were the competition for
start up
I could not stay on one before
stage I also did the animator
tourist in villages as an instructor
sailing and the first time they have me
said to get on a stage I already have
ready the suitcase to go away though
had to also learn to communicate
the idea the communication of ideas is the
basis to make them credible and over the years
in which the product did not yet exist
it was just a nice idea
I start to win competition for start
up we start talking about gènèrale
say rail go to newspapers we start to
win prizes also economic rewards up
a day when the world collapses me
on
we had to develop the mixture in
plastic and recycled rubber for
make our product
chemical experts when present
the idea tells me impossible we were in the
2014
the patent was already registered in 148
countries
I had won awards for startups I had
won economic prizes and I hear them say
from the experts impossible
iran the choices were two give up and not
I would be here to tell you this story
persevere
I had the courage to decide to
invest and I told them
the funds are our demonstratemi that
this is impossible
after testing more than thirty michelle
and the result is that today we have
created a mixture composed of plastic
from urban waste and tire tires
down
unique in the world because the only one able
to be injection molded that a
industrial process enough
I will tell you this in particular because
many times in the projects they have
successful projects that come later
on the market and starting to invoice
only part of the part is known
that of communication that goes
on newspaper
that beautiful but is never at all never one
easy path to create innovation
to create innovation especially in gods
industrial sectors that are highly
closed to innovation conceived in the world
railway
I told him first from the beginning of the 900 there
they are those structures and therefore a world
where to convince on innovation and
difficult and do it by startup do it from
small and even more companies
but all this was difficult
possible thanks to the contamination that
about our history has happened
connections today we have created one
network relations with research centers
industrial partners who have had
intuition and the vision of believing
in that crazy idea of ​​a boy and that
they succeeded together with us today to
create something absolutely this
disruptive rats
today we are in a phase of
overbooking green ray is known today
from Australia to the United States from the North
europe to south africa together one
situation in which we can not give
following all the requests that
come from the world, however, what
I want to leave you today is a message not
it is impossible for everyone to do
this when I find myself in these
I feel almost treated as a contexts
extraordinary man
I’m not at all extraordinary or
just believed in my idea I have
convinced people on my idea I have
proved that the idea was possible and
all this has translated into a
success today is 32 years old I can say that
16 years ago when I was on my destiny e
I imagined my life at the age of 30 I can
tell him he did it
and when I talk to an audience and young people a
some people who look at me like
example I only say that everyone
I’m able to do it
thank you
[Applause]
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