Episode 349: The Janitor Strategy for Developer-led Sales, also, The School of the Philosophy of Rocks and Time

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This week, Coté and Matt define three sales model for doing developer-led sales. Also, we know that clown fish are optional, but do rocks need to exist?

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Mood Board:

• How many of you watch streaming?
• hotdogheadexplosion37 - “I’m your host, exploding hotdog.”
• hotdogheadexplosion37 solves agile financing problems.
• I’m your host, ExplodingHotDogMan
• What if rocks didn’t exist?
• I didn’t take “Philosophy of Rocks 101 in college, but I did take hydrobiology 379.”
• This is what happens when Brandon’s not here
• Legal week
• B to D sales
• The Janitorial Sales Model - vendor creates mess, drives uncontrolled/ungoverned/decentralized viral spread.
• The Mary Poppins Model
• Graffiti Proof Paint Model

Rundown

• Rocks.
• The End of Daylight Saving Time?
• Dell Striving To ‘Embrace Developers In A Big Way’: Michael Dell

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Nonsense

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