Jon Rooney: Humanities major to Product Manager to Marketing Executive
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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?
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