On Path

 Here are some relevant links from the conversation:    

• Thomas Roccia on LinkedIn
• Thomas Roccia on X
• Thomas Roccia on Medium
• Visual Threat Intelligence (Book) by Thomas Roccia

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• JBO on LinkedIn
• JBO on X
• DEFCON talk by JBO

 Here are some relevant links from the conversation:    

• Semir on LinkedIn
• union4digital
• Clari

  Show notes: 

• Growing up in a village in central Switzerland
• What prompted a move to London?
• Working in social care to welcome refugees
• Landing a job at Accenture
• Key learnings from consulting
• Least favorite aspects of consulting
• union4digital: a bucket for all things outside of daily work
• Semir's take on side hustles
• Discovering pre-sales and solution engineering
• Life at Salesforce
• What makes a good manager?
• Leading a team remotely
• Deciding between email and Slack
• Joining Clari through a cold message to the CEO
• Sales kick-off in 2022
• Leveraging LinkedIn
• Posting consistently
• Prompts to overcome a blank page
• Advice for his previous self

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• Patricia Bleiker on LinkedIn.
• Open Systems
• Scandit
• Thalwil, on the shores of Lake Zurich

 Show notes:

• 2:02 How working from home is going
• 4:47 Working remotely: we're all on the same level
• 5:19 Growing up in Thalwil
• 10:05 Discovering Zurich
• 10:54 An extended trip to South America
• 20:23 Gaining practical experience while studying
• 22:20 Intensity of the Bachelors degree at ETH
• 27:19 Internships
• 31:16 Joining Open Systems
• 36:57 A second masters + getting into product marketing
• 43:14 Continual learning
• 47:18 Joining Scandit
• 51:25 Advice for her younger self

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• Jennine Heller on LinkedIn
• JHellerCoaching.com

  Show notes:  

• 1:08 How life is two years into the pandemic
• 2:50 Growing up at a half Jewish, half Puerto Rican household
• 4:33 Studying Computer Science
• 7:05 Getting a job
• 9:16 A love for art
• 10:19 Becoming a teacher in Malawi
• 15:42 Staying in touch with family and friends
• 17:49 The pre-internet, pre-smartphone experience
• 18:57 Meeting her husband over ultimate frisbee
• 21:14 Staring a company
• 23:13 Selling her company
• 26:07 The highs and lows of launching a venture
• 27:39 Soft skills
• 29:12 Finding her calling as an executive coach
• 34:01 Coaching line managers vs managers of managers
• 35:33 When do leaders look for a coach?
• 37:33 What does a successful coaching engagement look like?
• 40:48 The highs and lows of coaching
• 43:55 Advice to herself when starting

 Here are some relevant links from the conversation: 

• Andy Raskin on LinkedIn
• Andy Raskin on Medium (lots of great articles here, including the one linked below)
• The Greatest Sales Deck I've Ever Seen by Andy Raskin
• The Bigger Narrative (Andy's podcast on strategic narrative)
• Chill Beefs (Andy's podcast celebrating pet peeves)
• Victoria Zenoff (Andy's career coach)

 Show notes: 

• 2:02 Chill Beefs - Andy's new podcast
• 3:39 The many roles Andy has had
• 4:13 Getting interested in Japan
• 6:06 Working for Apple in Tokyo in the 90s
• 9:36 Miso soup
• 10:50 Lucky socks, lucky underwear
• 11:43 Becoming a writer
• 13:20 Interviewing Marc Benioff
• 16:10 Product Manager at Skype
• 19:51 Moving into product marketing
• 23:43 Free agent
• 28:02 Feeling nervous before a new engagement
• 30:32 Productizing your offering as a consultant
• 32:42 The sales deck is the story
• 34:38 The Bigger Narrative podcast
• 37:47 How Andy came up with the intro sequence
• 41:03 The next season (coming out soon)
• 42:17 Why Andy invests in a career coach
• 44:13 20 years with his career coach

Here are some relevant links from the conversation:

• Jon Rooney on LinkedIn
• Scott Guthrie

Show notes:

• 1:30 Crash course in programming
• 3:05 Considering careers outside academia
• 3:21 Andersen Consulting
• 5:38 Instilling discipline at on-boarding
• 6:58 An outsider in tech?
• 8:37 Not even rocket science is rocket science
• 10:09 What's changed about learning new topics
• 11:23 Tech trainings for non-tech teams
• 12:00 San Francisco at the peak of the dot-com bubble
• 15:35 Monetizing the long-tail
• 16:48 Mass layoffs
• 20:19 Working on Windows Azure
• 22:15 Server and Tools at Microsoft
• 23:07 "Don't monetize the developers, get them loving your stack"
• 24:24 The transition from on-premises to cloud
• 28:11 Product Managers doing product marketing
• 30:06 Joining Splunk
• 33:18 Brought in to be the developer marketing person
• 34:05 Internal moves and promotions
• 38:10 Leading product marketing
• 39:48 Hypergrowth: like a new company every year
• 41:07 Zigging when everyone else is zagging
• 44:25 From 80 to 1200 quota-carrying sales reps
• 45:21 New Relic comes calling
• 51:19 Joining Oracle
• 53:15 A remote on-boarding
• 54:01 Early-stage startup or enterprise?

Here are some relevant links from the conversation:

• Sherryl Manalo on LinkedIn
• Women @ Microsoft Switzerland

Show notes:

• 1:26 Demo fail
• 3:39 Early childhood in the Philippines
• 5:41 Moving to Nigeria
• 9:15 Falling sick
• 10:40 Adapting to a new reality
• 11:45 Another move to Ausria
• 13:33 Navigating the Austrian school system
• 15:25 Starting a PhD in Physics
• 16:13 Learning German
• 17:13 Discovering coding
• 21:36 Lessons in economics
• 24:18 The challenges of small business
• 26:42 Joining Microsoft
• 29:07 Intrapreneurship within Microsoft
• 30:47 Sherryl's day-to-day work today
• 32:06 Role model growing up
• 35:01 Women in tech
• 37:17 Rapid-fire questions

Here are some relevant links from the conversation:

• Nelson Haung on LinkedIn
• Conan O’Brien Needs A Frien‪d‬ on Apple Podcasts
• The Dave Chang Show on Apple Podcasts

Show notes:

• 1:28 Nelson's last name
• 2:55 Growing up in Mountain View
• 6:20 Was working in tech a foregone conclusion?
• 8:29 Visiting Cisco in the early days
• 10:36 Why Electrical Engineering at UC Davis?
• 14:49 Background of Sales Engineering peers
• 15:50 Deciding to do an MBA
• 17:13 Highlights of the MBA
• 19:46 Would Nelson still do an MBA now?
• 21:17 Highlights from Salesforce
• 25:52 Why return to the Bay Area?
• 26:23 Leading marketing at Zinier
• 27:42 Joining as the first marketer
• 30:00 Key factors when hiring
• 31:25 Large tech company or startup?
• 33:57 What to look for in a manager?
• 36:20 Why take a sabbatical?
• 39:39 The reaction of friends and family
• 41:16 What next professionally for Nelson?
• 43:21 Nelson's favorite product-led companies
• 45:25 Rapid-fire questions
• 51:43 A love of surfing

Here are some relevant links from the conversation:

• Braze.com where Sunny currently leads Global SMB
• Sunny on LinkedIn
• Omar Johnson on Wikipedia
• Pedro Martínez on Wikipedia
• Knowledge Project podcast

Show notes:

• 2:02 Most memorable presentation
• 4:36 Immigrating to the United States
• 6:06 Being a Boston sports fan
• 7:35 Chance event that led to studying at WPI
• 11:47 Joining GE as an aeronautical engineer
• 13:47 Decision to pursue an MBA
• 17:56 Why Harvard?
• 20:42 Challenging moments as a founder CEO
• 26:19 The many roles of a founder CEO
• 27:33 Emotional experience of being acquired
• 30:08 Why marketing?
• 33:31 How would you explain product marketing?
• 37:12 What skills Sunny looks for when hiring Product Marketers
• 40:46 Sunny's recent promotion
• 43:59 Role models growing up
• 46:21 Becoming a father
• 48:39 Pivotal moments and best decisions
• 51:26 Rapid fire questions