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

Spiro Technologies

Mike Nager: Yes, I went to school for an engineering degree. As a result, I’m an electrical engineer by degree. We should pitch it to someone in Hollywood. A big part of that is hands-on experience, so the concept of being an engineer and being a theoretical engineer is kind of like an oxymoron to them.

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SaaStr Podcast #388 with Okta CMO Ryan Carlson

SaaStr

I studied electrical engineering. Ryan Carlson: And the sales enablement team has already educated every SDR and sales executive and sales engineer to know that this is the way we’re positioning this from the PR aspect, all the way through to the advertising aspect. I started in Silicon Valley a long time ago.

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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.