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Episode 29: How Custom Solutions Leads to Long Term Customers for Marlin Technologies

Spiro Technologies

And then our electrical engineering guys will get involved and design a custom circuit board, and we’ll get into our own manufacturing to make that. Adam Honig: And it’s probably not the same price as well. Then they say, “Yeah, we’ve pushed that out for 8 months, and we’ll talk to you in 8 months.”

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SaaStr Podcast #388 with Okta CMO Ryan Carlson

SaaStr

I studied electrical engineering. And are you increasing the average selling price over time? If you’re in finance, you’re going to work with vendors. So tell me, how did you make your way into the world of SaaS, and how did you come to be CMO of the juggernaut that Okta is today?

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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. But I historically have been taught to do enterprise selling, where our average sales price starts at the million-dollar satellite EarthLink stations. And then, you go to startup land, and then you do it all over again in startups.