julee04

Hey Stephen,

I would check out http://hightouch.com/. You can easily sync data from a warehouse to SFDC. You can also sync PG -> Airtable as well!

This is more expensive than H&M

I lead the solutions engineering team for a company called Hightouch.

My background: - Started off my career as an SSE (Demo builder) at Salesforce and eventually moved to software engineering at Salesforce working on their analytics product. - Spend the rest of my career in front-end engineering (in startups, large enterprises, and everything in between) - Started my own company (which we shuttered after 1.5 years) - Made the move to sales to learn more about sales

My move to Sales Engineering was highly motivated to learn to sell since gaining sales experience is much easier in an established company (unlike programming, it's hard to become good at sales just by self-learning). Originally, it was a skill I wanted to learn to start my own company again, but ultimately I fell in love with profession.

My career as a sales engineer: - Started off as a sales engineer at Algolia - Move to Segment where I eventually became a leader for the West & APAC region - Now I lead the Sales Engineering/CS team at Hightouch

One thing I've learned over my career is that Sales Engineering is very different depending on what company you work at. A sales engineer at Salesforce for example, is very different than what we have at Hightouch. Understanding the role that an SE team plays in the company overall can make a huge difference in the role.

If you are considering Sales Engineering, here's my grain of salt advice: 1. Joining the right company matters. Your comp is variable so whether or not you make a lot of money depends on the success of the company. Here's an article I wrote on my methodology when it comes to picking a good SaaS company: https://1stgeneration.substack.com/p/how-to-pick-a-winner-in...

2. Join a Sales engineering team that values discovery and sales skills. I've seen the most respected sales engineering teams come from teams who don't have the most technical people, but have people who can bridge business and tech together extremely well.

All in all, I love sales engineering. If you want to talk more - feel free to shoot me an email at ju[at]hightouch.io

Sales is incredibly hard to learn without actually doing it. It's a soft skill so it requires a lot of reps and practice.

I wanted to get great at sales after my startup failed and I decided the best way to learn would be by joining a company as a solutions engineer (being a developer, I felt like it was role that was perfect for me since it combined sales with technical skills).

It ultimately ended up being the best decision of my life, and I couldn't imagine doing anything outside of sales/go-to-market now. I'm happy to talk more about my experience over zoom if you'd like! Feel free to shoot me an email at [email protected]

In terms of book recommendations, I do recommend the book "To Sell Is Human" by Daniel Pink to people deciding whether or not to get into sales. A lot of people associate sales with the "annoying car salesman", but this book gives really great insight into how sales has transformed into "consultative" in order to survive.

I’m curious how are you using Segment? I used to work at Segment and we didn’t have any IoT customers due to the price being too high

It might be just me - but I don't understand why any company would want to make their roadmap public. I feel like only the company's competitors ever look at it

If you write your data into a data warehouse or clickhouse you could use something like https://hightouch.io/

thanks for the reply! great breakdown of the space

Looks great! Congrats on the launch.

How does this differ from a data reliability platform like Datafold? https://www.datafold.com/

And can this replace what https://atlan.com/ does as well?

It’s crazy how much has changed in the data space in the past few years. You can basically set up a ‘modern data stack’ by swiping a credit card and buying fivetran (EL), snowflake (warehouse), DBT (transform), and hightouch (reverse-etl) for extremely cheap and without the need of an engineer. Just need to know SQL.

I think more companies are going adopt this modern data stack earlier in their data maturity lifecycle.

If anyone is interested in what a typical SaaS sales org chart looks like, here is a good example: https://www.saasae.com/levels

what about tencent?

is this april fools?

Dropping alcohol

One way to get out of this rut is to go into sales. As a software engineer gone sales, hear me out:

1. You're valued more the older you get (Opposite of engineering) 2. Your job is to talk to customers and collaborate with your coworkers to get a deal done (No more internet explorer bugs) 3. You learn an awesome skill (sales) that helps you navigate through the bs politics of not only work but life.

If anyone is interested in my transition from engineering to sales, happy to chat! Email me at [email protected]

Congrats to the Retool team! I got a chance to meet David and Anthony when they were working out of their apartment and I was incredibly impressed with how fast they were able to innovate/build. Kevin White from Segment who was an amazing head of growth marketing joined their team as well, so I'm confident it's only a matter of time until we see them become the next big thing!

Seeing as this article is from 2019, would people still recommend airflow to ETL data from APIs to DataWarehouse/DataLakes or is there something better in the market?

I made a logo game for iOS (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-logo-game/id1473784939) and and android (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.logomobile)

So far it’s made $25. All from iOS