THE Trendaddy Show

CEOs trust Steve Faktor to find defining trends & innovations. In The Trendaddy video series, Steve rates which trends will shape your future—and which won’t.

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Check out the original The McFuture podcast for Steve’s provocative, funny monologues on tech, economics, and cultural trends. Plus amazing guests like broadcasting icon Larry King, comedian Jim Jefferies, Governor Jesse Ventura, Nobel Economist Joseph Stiglitz, former ACLU President Nadine Strossen, Megachurch Pastor AR Bernard and many more.

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CEOs trust Steve Faktor to decode trends & innovate. In The Trendaddy Newsletter, he preps you for the AI economy, separates real trends from noise, and skewers the absurdities along the way. Join this last refuge of organic creativity, where only the Tostitos are GMO.

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ABOUT STEVE

Steve Faktor is a former Fortune-100 executive— turned entrepreneur at IdeaFaktory Innovation, futurist author of Econovation, and host of The Trendaddy show (formerly The McFuture Podcast). More

As Managing Director of IdeaFaktory Innovation, he helps tech, financial services and consumer goods clients see and build the future.

Steve is a LinkedIn Influencer with over 750K followers and has been featured in Forbes, Harvard Business Review, NPR, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Radio, MSNBC, among others. He’s a popular keynote speaker at major events for CFO Magazine, Harvard, PDMA, Frost & Sullivan, New Media Expo, and numerous clients. 

Previously, Steve launched multiple $150M+ loyalty, payments and ecommerce products & services as head of the American Express Chairman’s Innovation Fund, SVP at Citi Ventures, VP of Strategy & Innovation at MasterCard, and management consultant at Andersen. 

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