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“My Obsession To Provide Customer Value,” Christian Mauer

Partners in Excellence

The usual perks such as OTE, company cars, invitation to “presidents clubs” offered to sales people never motivated me. I never had a job, offering these external motivators. I then studied Electrical Engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, specializing to the max. I also never “carried a quota”.

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Big vendor risks: Friday’s daily brief

Martech

While there is some merit to the motives behind regulating Google, the idea that it should be classified and treated as a public utility or common carrier simply doesn’t apply — that’s the takeaway from Gilad Edelman’s article for Wired. The whole value proposition for Google is that it discriminates between different possible results”.