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

 Here are some relevant links from the conversation:     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

Here are some relevant links from the conversation:    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

  Here are some relevant links from the conversation:   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?

Sherryl is a Principal Software Engineering Lead at Microsoft. Her story is one of resilience and overcoming adversity. Early life was tough: not always having enough money for food, a serious bout of malaria, frequent moves and new school systems. In this conversation Sherryl shares with us how she pushed through: going to university, creating her own company and eventually joining Microsoft, where's been over a decade.

Nelson is currently on a sabbatical focused on:

Sunny is Vice President & GM, Global SMB at Braze. He started his career as an aeronautical engineer at GE before earning his MBA at Harvard Business School and moving into a career in marketing and business leadership. In this conversation Sunny shares with us his experience immigrating to the US at the age of 12, why he switched from engineering to business, the emotional journey of founding a company that went on to get acquired, and a whole lot more.

In this bonus episode of Season 1, my friend Dan Ferreira hosts the show and interviews me on my career and life to date. We talk about my early life moving countries often, how I seek inspiration, what got me into marketing, and some of the unexpected turns in my path.

Drashti is the Head of Brand and Marketing at Siilo, an Amsterdam based secure medical messaging app. She has over a decade of B2B product marketing and brand experience from Microsoft, Impraise, ClearSlide, and Iron Creative. In this conversation we unpack her career and life journey, from interning at Tom's shoes to leading a team of marketing professionals.

Shikha is a Product Marketer for Growth at Slack. Previously she's been at companies like Dropbox, Uber, Thumbtack, and Sidecar. As a passionate cook, Shikha began her career in restaurant kitchens. A diagnosis of chronic anemia required a change in career. She then launched a food blog, learned the relevant skills, and made the transition to tech. From not owning a laptop to later working at the fastest growing technology companies, in this discussion we unpack her life and career journey.

Kevin is a Product Engineer at Bridgewater Associates, the world's largest hedge fund. We talk about his career and life path: serving as President of Columbia University's entrepreneurship student organization, co-founding a group to connect students of color with career-advancing opportunities, running 100+ hours of user interviews at a crypto startup, and how he landed his current position at Bridgewater.

Kirupa is a Senior Director of Product Management at Salesforce. Previously he was at Microsoft for over a decade as a technical PM, where he worked on the Developer Division and Windows teams. He has a Computer Science degree from MIT. On the side, Kirupa is a prolific creator. He's built one of the Internet's top free resources on web development (kirupa.com), published 8 technical books, runs a Youtube videos with well over a million views, and presented at many conferences.

Dan is the Head of Measurement and Analytics, Retail at Google. He oversees an analytics practice helping eCommerce retailers with their digital advertising strategy through data. We talk about his career and life path: growing up in Brazil then attending Georgia Tech for Industrial Engineering, how he decided to do an MBA and what he got out of it, and his move from consulting at Deloitte to leading a team of analytics professionals at Google.

Lisi is a Senior Product Manager at Singular, a leading mobile analytics and attribution company serving customers like LinkedIn, Airbnb, and Twitter. We talk about her career and life path: from growing up in Venezuela and leaving to Canada for college, to finding product management and her current home in Israel.

Dan is a Lead DevOps engineer at the pharma giant Roche. Previously he was a cybersecurity analyst at EY, Head of R&D at a blockchain startup, and did DevOps at Swisscom. We talk about his career and life path: from business school to a coding role, in a journey that's taken him through Moldova, Italy, the Netherlands, and now Switzerland.

Yoav is an e-commerce marketer at the global agency, Saatchi and Saatchi in New York. He works on Startup Pampers of Procter & Gamble. We chat about his career and life: discovering marketing, what he's learned in e-commerce, growing up in Switzerland, studying in Canada and Japan, his passion for dance, and much more.