Insight #18 - Daniel James: The Importance Of Finding Your Mission For Fulfilment
00:02 Yeah, can you introduce us a bit more the role that you've got in a company? Yeah. What do? What are your responsibilities? So for motion robotics and its headports, increasingly in set uports, I am currently the media manager, which is just kind of a temporary hold-all term at the moment that we're using. So I work with social media side, making sure all those pages are up-state clean, and that we're and I'll be managing the social posts that go out every time on that.
00:34 And also, most by responsibility at the moment, is capturing test footage and promotional footage to provide with our contracts to make sure that we're still beating tasks and quotas to keep the funding going. So at the moment, I'm just mostly recording test footage, and we are slowly starting to build up promotional material that we can start sending to venture capitalists first. to start pitching for seed funding, which is going to start relatively very soon. So that's going to be a very big jump, which will be great. Also organizing public events, so I was responsible for organizing our attendants at fully
01:17 charged last year, which is an electric car expert, but also had a section featured on electric flight, so he managed to get it there. didn't go in this year just because of kind of financial issues with the company at the moment just because we're not really bouncing books correctly and that led us to being able to attend the Wood Festival of Speed which is this massive motoring event happening in Gidwood where all the latest supercars get announced and everything it's absolutely it was crazy it was such a cool event to go to and just to get like picked out of nowhere just like oh yeah I should come and feature in our future lab exhibit and I was
01:56 It's like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly. I can't have it. And does it really help with the promotion of the company and to spread the world when you participate in this type of events? Hugely, yeah. Mainly because, so the work we kind of do is mainly in office and because it's kind of technical and working with grants and that kind of thing, we don't really have time to publish anything until it's done. So when we get to go to these kinds of events, it's also a great.
02:26 experience for the team as well to get feedback from people. Because a lot of the time, most of the engineers are just working behind the desk, behind a computer, working on prototypes, just carrying a hair out to get something to work. And then for people to actually see the work that they're doing and comment on it and talk about how cool it is, really boost morale in the office as well. So that's one of the main things. When it comes to promotional, here we are, and actually getting in front of people, there hasn't been much promotional work lately. since I joined, just because until now, the main focus has been working on these grants, working on this technology to get something that resembles working.
03:07 So, yeah, no, it's getting us out there. People are seeing us. We get the opportunity of people covering us, like social media influences, or just people walking past with a camera phone, tweeting about it. And you may have mentioned it, but how long you've been working there? I've been working at motion robotics and interpoles for about two years now, almost I lived on. Started working here because of, so I just finished cancer, I moved down to Ringwood with my nan and my mum, just because things in Somerset had just kind of didn't really work out too well. And I was just looking for a job whilst I was recovering from chemo. I felt like I was in a good state to start working.
03:53 and we found this opening on LinkedIn for working at this drone company making a video meant the guys start producing a video for them and just kind of stuck around so yeah that's how that's kind of worked out but I just love the concept so much I'm just kind of stuck around yeah it sounds great to be part of something like that you know you've got like a mission and product that you are developing together yeah so it's a really cool idea and a really cool sector that is you want to work working really. So most of my media careers, especially would virtually be there, and now motion products on the teleports,
04:32 is finding something that you're all interested in and just going along for the ride, really. I'm not really focused on anything else, as long as it's interesting. Like, that's all on my airport. Yeah, and it sounds like there is a wide big future for this industry or this specific type that the company is working on.
04:51 At a drone delivery, right? Yeah, definitely. So a drone delivery has been something that's been in work since at least around 2014, when Amazon announced that they were going to start doing drone delivery.
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