Shaking the money tree

Shaking the money tree

Date added: Wednesday, 16 September 2009 10:17

Shaking the money tree
By Karyn Scherer - The Business Herald 4/9/09

Neil Armstrong sent him emails. And Jay Leno sent him a limo to take him on a tour of New York.

If the Christchurch-based inventor of the Martin Jetpack had to pick the set of wheels he'd really like to be seen around town in, it would probably be something like an Aston Martin. Instead, Glenn Martin gets by - just - with a 1991 Corolla.

Welcome to the not-so-glamorous world of the Kiwi entrepreneur.

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