Series: Exploring the Cloud

Serial entrepreneur and stock market investor Kyle Schroeder to breakdown the latest DraftKings 10K filing and recent earnings call. Then Chad and Steve are joined by Nick Drost, a Senior Director of Sales Engineering and Solution Architecture at Elastic to discuss how to apply what was learned from the DraftKings 10K breakdown when approaching a sales motion with a customer. The crew also cover a range of recent technews topics like 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.

Joined by guest financial news personality Gary Deduke we discuss the recent Zoom 10K filing. Then Steve and Chad go through some recent tech news topics. Will technologies like Clubhouse and Microsoft Mesh become relevant for people engaged in software sales? Google caps commissions of sales reps, will it affect their ability to compete?

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.