Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On Fri, 4 Oct 2024, Louis Krupp wrote:

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Good sales folks -- like the guy at the first company -- treat nerds like human beings, and I always enjoyed working with them.
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Louis
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This is the truth! I started out as a technologist and moved more and
more into sales as time progressed. If the technologist is interested, I
always love to bring them with me to customer meetings, and get them
involved in the business side as much as their time and interest allows.
For the customer it is great, and brings a lot of technical credibility
to the deal. For the technologist it is also great, because they get
first hand experience with the problems of the customer and I have seen
that it changes how they think about what they do.
At least two who I loved to get involved in the business side, today run
their own companies. I always like to think, although I of course have
no proof, that perhaps a small inspiration was that I involved them in
the business side. ;)