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

Spiro Technologies

I was typically in a customer-facing position, such as applications engineering, sales, or product marketing. In sales, you’re visiting all these customers every day, and you might think that there’s a community of people at Hershey, Nestlé, and all the other food manufacturers. We should pitch it to someone in Hollywood.

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“The “Dos & Don’ts” of Building Winning SaaS Companies with G2 Crowd (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And my education, I went to MIT to study mechanical engineering, and I think I would have thought I was going to go into the pump business like my father. Lars was one of his early customers at Cloudera and I met him at Dreamforce in 2013 and unbeknownst to me and my business partner Matt Gourniak, he came up to us.

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