My guest today is Steve Mast, President & Chief Innovation Officer at Delvinia. Founded in 1998, Delvinia is a Canadian based Group of Companies that provide consumer insight and data collection solutions including Delvinia Custom Solutions, AskingCanadians, AskingAmericans, and Methodify. Prior to joining Devinia in 2000, Steve has been a video game producer, architectural designer, and entrepreneur. Find Steve Online: Twitter: www.twitter.com/stevemast LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/stevemast Website: www.delvinia.com Find Jamin Online: Email: jamin@happymr.instawp.xyz LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jaminbrazil Twitter: www.twitter.com/jaminbrazil Find Us Online: Twitter: www.twitter.com/happymrxp LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/happymarketresearch Facebook: www.facebook.com/happymrxp Website: www.happymr.com Music: “Clap Along” by Auditionauti: https://audionautix.com This Episode’s Sponsor: This episode is brought to you by SurveyMonkey. Almost everyone has taken its surveys, but did you know that SurveyMonkey offers complete solutions for market researchers? In addition to flexible surveys, their global Audience panel, and research services, SurveyMonkey just launched a fast and easy way to collect market feedback, with 7 new Expert Solutions for concept and creative testing. With built-in, customizable methodology, AI-Powered Insights, and industry benchmarking, you can get feedback on your ideas from your target market–in a presentation-ready format, by the way–in as little as an hour. For more information on SurveyMonkey Market Research Solutions, visit surveymonkey.com/market-research. Mention the Happy Market Research Podcast to the SurveyMonkey sales team before June 30th, for a discount off of your first project. [00:00:03] Jamin Brazil: Hi, I'm Jamin. You're listening to the Happy Market Research podcast. My guest today is Steve Mast, President and Chief Innovation Officer at Delvinia. Founded in 1998, Delvinia is a Canadian based group of companies that provide consumer insights and data collection solutions, including Delvinia custom solutions, Asking Canadians, Asking Americans and Methodify. Prior to joining Delvinia in 2000, Steve has been a video game producer, architectural designer and entrepreneur. Steve, thanks so much for joining me on the Happy Market Research podcast today. [00:00:38] Steve Mast: Thanks, man. It's great talking to you again.
My guest today is Steve Mast, President & Chief Innovation Officer at Delvinia.
Founded in 1998, Delvinia is a Canadian based Group of Companies that provide consumer insight and data collection solutions including Delvinia Custom Solutions, AskingCanadians, AskingAmericans, and Methodify.
Prior to joining Devinia in 2000, Steve has been a video game producer, architectural designer, and entrepreneur.
Find Steve Online:
Twitter: www.twitter.com/stevemast
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/stevemast
Website: www.delvinia.com
Find Jamin Online:
Email: jamin@happymr.instawp.xyz
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jaminbrazil
Twitter: www.twitter.com/jaminbrazil
Find Us Online:
Twitter: www.twitter.com/happymrxp
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/happymarketresearch
Facebook: www.facebook.com/happymrxp
Website: www.happymr.com
Music:
“Clap Along” by Auditionauti: https://audionautix.com
This Episode’s Sponsor:
This episode is brought to you by SurveyMonkey. Almost everyone has taken its surveys, but did you know that SurveyMonkey offers complete solutions for market researchers? In addition to flexible surveys, their global Audience panel, and research services, SurveyMonkey just launched a fast and easy way to collect market feedback, with 7 new Expert Solutions for concept and creative testing. With built-in, customizable methodology, AI-Powered Insights, and industry benchmarking, you can get feedback on your ideas from your target market–in a presentation-ready format, by the way–in as little as an hour.
For more information on SurveyMonkey Market Research Solutions, visit surveymonkey.com/market-research. Mention the Happy Market Research Podcast to the SurveyMonkey sales team before June 30th, for a discount off of your first project.
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Jamin Brazil: Hi, I'm Jamin. You're listening to the Happy Market Research podcast. My guest today is Steve Mast, President and Chief Innovation Officer at Delvinia. Founded in 1998, Delvinia is a Canadian based group of companies that provide consumer insights and data collection solutions, including Delvinia custom solutions, Asking Canadians, Asking Americans and Methodify. Prior to joining Delvinia in 2000, Steve has been a video game producer, architectural designer and entrepreneur. Steve, thanks so much for joining me on the Happy Market Research podcast today.
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Steve Mast: Thanks, man. It's great talking to you again.
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Jamin Brazil: So the world has changed. It is March 27th, 2020. We're going to talk about that in a minute. But before we do, let's set some context. Tell us a little bit about your parents and how they have informed what you do today?
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Steve Mast: Sure, well, first off, my mom actually she worked at the local hospital. She was a ward clerk, so she was a front line staffer if you will. So first and foremost, hats off to all the front line folks right now that are dealing with this crisis that we're going through right now. So big shout out to them. My dad was in banking, pretty much so for 37 years, I thought about the years right. But he really loved to work with his hands. He actually didn't really love banking, but back then, you were either a doctor or lawyer or a banker. That's what you did when you got out of school but he loved to create. Particular to build furniture, homes, he built huge parts of our cottage. So he loved to work with his hands. And they both were really good at design, particularly they were very crafty, very resourceful people. So I think I kind of inherited a lot of that from them. Obviously when I got out of school, I had no desire to be in banking. Hence I had this sort of interesting career path which I sort of referred to as a squiggly line versus a straight line. Had really no idea then I loved design, took architecture, realized you probably don't want me designing buildings because I think they would...