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Dissecting Popular IT Nerds

99. The Bleeding Edge Death of the PSTN

Dissecting Popular IT Nerds

Dissecting Popular IT Nerds

Technology

549 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Jonathan Nelson, Global Solutions Engineer at Vonage, and Phil Howard discuss: Dissecting Popular IT Nerds made the list: Top 40 Technology Podcasts You Must Follow in 2021.

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0:00.0

Today we have a special guest that we're going to, I don't know, we might beat on you a little bit.

0:18.4

But, you know, just because you come from a company that's somewhat pop, I mean,

0:23.8

somewhat kind of famous and or well known, but Jonathan Nelson,

0:29.3

Global Solutions Engineering Leader at Vonage.

0:36.5

And I don't have, I don't have vendors on that often,

0:39.1

but because you're a solutions engineer,

0:41.8

aka sales engineer,

0:43.7

and we have,

0:44.6

sales engineer is like the best job in the world,

0:46.9

I think, because you kind of,

0:49.4

you're responsible for making sure sales people don't say stupid things and make up, you know,

0:57.9

grandiose promises to the customer. Would you, would you say that that's a fair statement?

1:04.2

I think that's fair. Sometimes we're a barometer of truth, but I think also we're that trusted,

1:08.6

we're that trusted advisor in a lot of instances, right? Because,

1:11.8

you know, even if you have the most intelligent and capable sales rep, that title of sales rep

1:18.1

doesn't garner as much trust as the Solutions Engineering label does. So I have this ongoing

1:24.2

argument that's like if we have the sales engineer, it's kind of like,

1:28.1

why do we need the sales person? I guess they're just more good at, more good. I mean, here I am

1:35.5

an English major. I guess they're just more good at hustling and being hungry, I guess. So,

1:42.2

regardless, welcome to the show. And I wanted to have you on

1:48.9

for a couple reasons, because there's a lot of times in this industry, well, or in general, kind of the

1:57.6

mid-market enterprise space or people, when they think of a vendor, they have

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