Can I get that software in blue?

Episode #6 of "Can I get that software in blue?", a podcast by and for people engaged in technology sales. If you are in the technology presales, sales, support or professional services career paths then this show is for you!

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Show Notes and Links Mentioned:

Adrian's former company beBit, makers of the Augmented Reality (AR) sport Hado:

https://hado-official.com/en/

Nice writeup about Hado:

https://blog.laval-virtual.com/en/hado-the-sport-in-augmented-reality-from-japan/

Japanese IPO Market:

https://medium.com/innovators-in-japan/on-the-current-ipo-landscape-in-japan-mergers-and-acquisitions-corporations-startups-c1676714f99

Episode #5 of "Can I get that software in blue?", a podcast by and for people engaged in technology sales. If you are in the technology presales, sales, support or professional services career paths then this show is for you!

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Show Notes and Links Mentioned:

SFDC 10K:

https://investor.salesforce.com/financials/sec-filings/sec-filings-details/default.aspx?FilingId=14807944

Snowflake goes fully remote:

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/26/snowflake-moves-executive-office-from-california-to-bozeman-montana.html

Employees want WFH:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-01/return-to-office-employees-are-quitting-instead-of-giving-up-work-from-home

Episode #4 of "Can I get that software in blue?", a podcast by and for people engaged in technology sales. If you are in the technology presales, sales, support or professional services career paths then this show is for you!

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Show Notes and Links Mentioned:

Coinbase S1:

https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001679788/699359de-d974-4ad9-b7f6-5031f2f432d3.pdf

Takeaways from Coinbase S1:

https://techcrunch.com/2021/02/25/five-takeaways-from-coinbases-s-1/

Mark Cuban says ETH will dwarf BTC:

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/05/mark-cuban-ways-ethereum-dwarfs-bitcoin.html

Michael Saylor interview:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr_3F-zNM8g

Out of the Ether:

https://www.amazon.com/Out-Ether-Amazing-Ethereum-Destroyed/dp/1119602939

NY Power Plant coin mining:

https://www.syracuse.com/news/2021/05/as-bitcoin-mining-hooks-into-upstate-ny-power-plants-some-wonder-if-its-just-more-hot-air.html

Bitcoin uses more energy than all FAAMG companies combined:

https://www.theecoexperts.co.uk/blog/bitcoin-uses-more-energy-than-amazon

New ETH will be environmentally friendly:

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/ethereum-crypto-will-soon-be-9995-more-environmentally-friendly-heres-how

Coinbase runs on AWS:

https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/coinbase/

Episode #3 of "Can I get that software in blue?", a podcast by and for people engaged in technology sales. If you are in the technology presales, sales, support or professional services career paths then this show is for you!

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Show Notes and Links Mentioned:

Snowflake 10K:

https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001640147/13f710c7-3329-4ce0-8804-55e95f5f29f5.pdf

Venmo adds crypto support:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/20/investing/venmo-cryptocurrency/index.html

New China app for reporting on your friends and neighbors:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9487849/China-launches-app-citizens-report-mistaken-opinions.html

Netflix VP convicted for taking bribes:

https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/03/netflix_bribery_conviction/

Episode #2 of "Can I get that software in blue?", a podcast by and for people engaged in technology sales. If you are in the technology presales, sales, support or professional services career paths then this show is for you!

Your hosts Steve Mayzak and Chad Tindel are joined by serial entrepreneur and stock market investor Kyle Schroeder to break down the latest DraftKings 10K filing and recent earnings call. Then Nick Drost, a Senior Director of Sales Engineering and Solution Architecture at Elastic, joins the show to discuss how to apply what was learned from the DraftKings 10K breakdown when approaching a sales motion with a customer.

The crew also covers a range of recent tech news topics — new Clubhouse competitors, NFTs being lost, China's new digital yuan, and Apple removing items from Apple Maps at the request of the Chinese government.

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Show Notes and Links Mentioned:

DraftKings 10K and recent earnings:

https://sec.report/Document/0001104659-21-028617/

https://draftkings.gcs-web.com/static-files/b6d58aa0-cb2d-4d9f-b994-59926fd39299

https://venturefizz.com/stories/boston/engineering-spotlight-draftkings

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/modernizing-with-aws/modernizing-legacy-net-applications-draftkings-principles-for-success/

New Clubhouse Competitors:

https://techxplore.com/news/2021-03-spotify-clubhouse-competitor-betty-labs.html

https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/07/facebook-tests-hotline-a-qa-product-thats-a-mashup-of-clubhouse-and-instagram-live/

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/discord-has-launched-a-clubhouse-style-audio-channel-feature

Clubhouse valuation goes from $1B in january to $4B in April:

https://www.pymnts.com/news/investment-tracker/2021/clubhouse-rolls-out-payments-mulls-funding-4-billion-dollar-valuation/

NFTs keep vanishing:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkdj79/peoples-expensive-nfts-keep-vanishing-this-is-why

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/nfts-werent-supposed-end-like/618488

China's new digital yuan:

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/05/chinas-digital-yuan-what-is-it-and-how-does-it-work.html

Apple Removes Maps entries at China's request:

https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/03/26/hm-erased-from-apple-maps-other-platforms-in-china-amid-boycott

Episode #1 of "Can I get that software in blue?", a podcast by and for people engaged in technology sales. If you are in the technology presales, sales, support or professional services career paths then this show is for you!

Your hosts Steve Mayzak and Chad Tindel are joined by financial news analyst Gary Deduke to breakdown the latest Zoom 10K filing and recent earnings call. Then Chad and Steve discuss a range of recent tech news topics like Clubhouse, Microsoft Mesh AR/VR meetings, and Google Cloud capping Sales Commissions.

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Show Notes and Links Mentioned:

Zoom 10K and recent earnings:

https://investors.zoom.us/static-files/308bb471-ed70-43a5-b6ff-0397e4d780b6

https://investors.zoom.us/news-releases/news-release-details/zoom-video-communications-reports-fourth-quarter-and-fiscal-0

Twitter thread about the future of Clubhouse:

https://twitter.com/ShaanVP/status/1371972261004070913?s=15

Microsoft Discord Rumors:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-23/microsoft-said-to-be-in-talks-to-buy-discord-for-more-than-10b

Microsoft Mesh AR/VR:

https://www.geekwire.com/2021/microsoft-unveils-mesh-betting-mixed-reality-gatherings-collaboration-across-platforms/

Microsoft / HBR study on remote work and reducing social capital:

https://hbr.org/2021/03/what-a-year-of-wfh-has-done-to-our-relationships-at-work

Google sets deadline to be #1 or #2 in cloud by 2023 or they pull the plug:

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-brass-set-2023-as-deadline-to-beat-amazon-microsoft-in-cloud

Google Cloud caps sales commissions:

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-cloud-caps-sales-commissions-as-losses-mount

Episode #0 of "Can I get that software in blue?", a podcast by and for people engaged in technology sales.  If you are in the technology presales, sales, support or professional services career paths then this show is for you!  Your hosts Steve Mayzak and Chad Tindel introduce the idea behind the show, and they introduce themselves and give their background for how they got into technology pre-sales.

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