Sam Conniff Allende is a multi-award winning serial social entrepreneur, and co-founder and former CEO of Livity, Don’t Panic and Live Magazine. Since starting his entrepreneurial career aged 19, Conniff Allende has mentored thousands of talented young entrepreneurs and hustlers around the world.
Sam is an acclaimed public speaker, an advocate of ‘business as unusual’ or corporate responsibility and accountability, and a purpose-driven strategy consultant to brands such as Red Bull, Unilever and PlayStation.
Sam has refined the concepts explored in Be More Pirate by delivering workshops to senior executives in the HQ’s of Google and Facebook, and to hundreds of socially conscious young entrepreneurs and innovators from the townships of South Africa, Baltimore, Athens and in London, his hometown.
“How to be more Pirate” is the follow up to the excellent book “Be More Pirate: Or How to Take On the World and Win”.
It is a sequel and I do recommend that you read “Be More Pirate: Or How to Take On the World and Win” first.
My business partner, Adam Gray, and I were fortunate to see Sam Conniff speak at the The Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) in London. He was funny and the presentation was spot on.
Both of us immediately purchased to book and I know it made a massive impact on us and many of my friends.
“How to be More Pirate” is the follow up. Sam writes in the forward that he could never imagine how fast the book caught on and took off. So much that he needed to hire a “right hand person”. That person was, Alex Barker. The book is actually written by Alex and is a great summary of what happened after she was hired. The success stories, the case studies and a great journal as to the year after the launch of “Be more Pirate”. Alex writes in the same style as Sam, there is a serious message, but it’s delivered with a sense of humour. Both books are highly recommended.
Warning: If you are offended by profanity, these books are not for you.