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Keith Alexander

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1. “Book on Water Shoes, Radio Avon, which was the radio in Christchurch at the time, put up this competition. I walk on water competition, $1,000 prize.”

   2021-08-30 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Springfree Trampoline: Keith Alexander & Steve Holmes (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

2. “Well, I made all sorts of things, didn't an art exhibition. I made a six-foot mousetrap for that art exhibition, a collapsing chair. I made walk on water shoes. In fact, I funded myself through my PhD by winning walk on water competitions.”

   2021-08-30 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Springfree Trampoline: Keith Alexander & Steve Holmes (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

3. “That's right, a bench. Put up a bench somewhere if it wasn't there. I had these tool racks that I made with all the tools on and I could take them off the wall, pack them up, take them somewhere else.”

   2021-08-30 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Springfree Trampoline: Keith Alexander & Steve Holmes (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

4. “Yes, I started doing my engineering degree at Canterbury and suddenly realised that was what I loved. I wish somebody had told me many years before that I was actually an engineer. I found I could get A's there quite easily. So I did a master's and then did a PhD.”

   2021-08-30 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Springfree Trampoline: Keith Alexander & Steve Holmes (2019) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT