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Sales Pipeline Radio, Episode 124: Q&A with Chandar Pattabhiram @chandarp

Heinz Marketing

You studied mechanical engineering in college. Just kind of curious as to hear how did you make the move from mechanical engineering into B2B marketing? Chandar P: That’s a good question. And you’ve got to be good at both, right? So, I’m not going to do very well in that.

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Episode 35: Why Education and Training Are Key to Growing Manufacturing in the US

Spiro Technologies

A big part of that is hands-on experience, so the concept of being an engineer and being a theoretical engineer is kind of like an oxymoron to them. What’s the lowest price I can get for this widget?’ Reshoring is a real thing now. It’s become a national defense issue, not an economic issue, which I feel is the shift.

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The Art of Action by Stephen Bungay

The Lost Book of Sales

Clausewitz (Carl von Clausewitz, a Prussian general) believed that friction was as inherent to war as it is to mechanical engineering and could therefore never be eliminated but only mitigated. Each gap in alignment (described by Stephen in a diagram) raises specific issues and requires us to take different steps to close it.

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“The “Dos & Don’ts” of Building Winning SaaS Companies with G2 Crowd (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And my education, I went to MIT to study mechanical engineering, and I think I would have thought I was going to go into the pump business like my father. But when I was nine years old he moved us to Pittsburgh and I had been living in the Pittsburgh of Germany.

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