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Make it. Move it. Sell it. — Episode #7

Spiro Technologies

I have a very solid story here, it was really nice, it kind of came full circle about a year ago when we were pitching HASBRO for some business. A lot of Chinese companies were moving to Vietnam because it was close and they could move shop over there. Adam Honig: Yeah, so to your start, how did you get involved in all of this? .

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SaaS in Africa: 10 Things We Learned From Scaling to 1M Users (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

With electricity, a lot of African nations never had legacy electrical grids. I remember a situation where we had closed quite a big customer in the very early days. The first thing we did was really pulled the unemployment angle quite aggressively. They’re not going to say anything that will p**s you off.

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Episode 35: Why Education and Training Are Key to Growing Manufacturing in the US

Spiro Technologies

As a result, I’m an electrical engineer by degree. But yes, manufacturing still has the reputation of being dull, dangerous, and dirty, and it’s not something that a lot of people, unless they have someone close to them who knows differently, would consider out of the blue. We should pitch it to someone in Hollywood.

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SaaStr Podcast #388 with Okta CMO Ryan Carlson

SaaStr

As for Ryan, he has spent an incredible 9 years at Okta in numerous different roles starting with running the product marketing team before moving to run the marketing team, leading to his promotion to CMO close to 5 years ago now. How should we think through SAL vs closed revenue as indicator of marketing success?

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PODCAST 145: Lessons Learned From Winning by Design with Jacco van der Kooij

Sales Hacker

He holds a BSc in electrical engineering and an executive MBA from the University of Leicester. And as I grew up, I always thought you would conceive a baby if you just stood too close to a person of the opposite gender. Is there a size limit to a deal that could be closed asynchronously? Jacco van der Kooij: And reality.