Can I get that software in blue?

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"Can I get that software in blue?", a podcast by and for people engaged in technology sales. If you are in the technology presales, sales, support or professional services career paths then this show is for you! Your hosts Steve Mayzak and Chad Tindel will take you on a hot-air balloon ride exploring the whimsy and caprice of enterprise software marchitecture sales. https://softwareinblue.com

  1. 2D AGO

    Episode 45 | Dr. Roberta Lenger Kang | Executive Director at Teachers College, Columbia University

    How is AI being used by kids in schools today and what is the right way to harness and teach AI skills to our children? Dr. Roberta Lenger Kang is a world-renowned expert in modern techniques for teacher training and development. Her work at the Center for the Professional Education of Teachers at Columbia University takes her around the world where she and her team are brought in to overhaul teacher training programs in ways that align with the local curriculum, needs of students, and social customs and norms that can affect the incentive structures for how students and teachers learn. Dr. Kang holds an Ed.D. from Teachers College at Columbia University, where her research work and dissertation ("Assessment Matters: Negotiating the New York State English Regents Exam") focused on the history and pitfalls of high-stakes testing in the NY Department of Education. Dr. Kang joins us today to discuss the use of AI in education, where it can go wrong and how it can be used to help students learn better. Her organization consulted on the development of ConnectInk, an AI application that helps students become better writers. Episode #45 of “Can I get that software in blue?”, a podcast by and for people engaged in technology sales. If you are in the technology presales, solution architecture, sales, support or professional services career paths then this show is for you! Our website: https://softwareinblue.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/softwareinblue LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/softwareinblue Make sure to subscribe or follow us to get notified about our upcoming episodes: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8qfPUKO_rPmtvuB4nV87rg Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/can-i-get-that-software-in-blue/id1561899125 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25r9ckggqIv6rGU8ca0WP2 Links mentioned in the episode: https://cpet.tc.columbia.edu/articles-author-roberta-lenger-kang.html https://cpet.tc.columbia.edu/teaching-today.html https://www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025/08/21/brooklyn-high-school-uses-ai-to-improve-student-writing/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/08/ai-takeover-education-chatgpt/683840/

    1h 6m

  2. FEB 17

    Episode 44 | Ian Spandow | Founder at Spandow House Dog Rescue

    Ian Spandow is friends with Bono and U2, a standup comic, a musician, an author, and a dog rescuer. Does it take all of that to be a successful sales trainer?Ian Spandow has built his career as a sales trainer and sales coach at some of the biggest technology companies in the world like Oracle and MongoDB. His ability to engage the trainees is not merely natural report, he goes into detail into a bunch of different techniques that he uses to keep people focused and enjoying the learning the process. Ian also runs a Dog Sanctuary in Grass Valley for dogs that aren't suitable for the typical shelter environment. His new book "Rescuing Dogs and Salespeople: Memoir of a Mutt" is available on Amazon and proceeds from the book help fund the Dog Sanctuary. Please donate to Ian's Dog Rescue shelter online at https://spandowhouse.com/Episode #44 of “Can I get that software in blue?”, a podcast by and for people engaged in technology sales. If you are in the technology presales, solution architecture, sales, support or professional services career paths then this show is for you! Our website: https://softwareinblue.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/softwareinblue LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/softwareinblue Make sure to subscribe or follow us to get notified about our upcoming episodes: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8qfPUKO_rPmtvuB4nV87rg Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/can-i-get-that-software-in-blue/id1561899125 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25r9ckggqIv6rGU8ca0WP2Links mentioned in the episode: Ian's Book "Rescuing Dogs and Salespeople: Memoir of a Mutt": https://www.amazon.com/Rescuing-Dogs-Salespeople-Memoir-Mutt/dp/B0F6M2T324 Ian's Dog Rescue: https://spandowhouse.com

    1h 3m

  3. JAN 6

    Episode 43 | Jon Soini | Founder/CEO at ProofSight

    Are you interested in the use of AI Computer Vision to help Field Service Personnel Complete their tasks? Jon Soini is the founder of ProofSight, and today he's joining Chad Tindel and Steve Mayzak to discuss how his company is using AI to automate a lot of repetitive tasks that would take Field Service Personnel hours for each job. John previously worked on systems for the Field at T-Mobile and also Cruise (the self-driving taxi company acquired by GM) so he has a wealth of experience in this area. Episode #43 of “Can I get that software in blue?”, a podcast by and for people engaged in technology sales. If you are in the technology presales, solution architecture, sales, support or professional services career paths then this show is for you! Our website: https://softwareinblue.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/softwareinblue LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/softwareinblue Make sure to subscribe or follow us to get notified about our upcoming episodes: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8qfPUKO_rPmtvuB4nV87rg Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/can-i-get-that-software-in-blue/id1561899125 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25r9ckggqIv6rGU8ca0WP2 Links mentioned in the episode:https://www.proofsight.com

    59 min

  4. 10/12/2025

    Episode 42 | Tanya Bragin | VP Product & Marketing @ Clickhouse

    Episode #42 brings Tanya Bragin back to join Chad and Steve for the first sequel episode of the pod! Tanya's first episode was Episode 29 and it is the most watched episode so far. Tanya recently took on the VP of Marketing role at Clickhouse in addition to running Product so dive deep into her experience and how she's approaching Marketing differently from most companies since she's coming in as a technical product leader already. Lot of great insights here about how to do Demand Generation and Community Events differently from how companies typically run them. Episode #42 of "Can I get that software in blue?", a podcast by and for people engaged in technology sales. If you are in the technology presales, solution architecture, sales, support or professional services career paths then this show is for you! Our website: https://softwareinblue.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/softwareinblue LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/softwareinblue Make sure to subscribe or follow us to get notified about our upcoming episodes: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8qfPUKO_rPmtvuB4nV87rg Apple Podcasts:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/can-i-get-that-software-in-blue/id1561899125 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25r9ckggqIv6rGU8ca0WP2 Links mentioned in the episode: Clickhouse HyperDX acquisition: https://clickhouse.com/blog/clickhouse-acquires-hyperdx-the-future-of-open-source-observability Clickhouse PeerDB acquisition: https://clickhouse.com/blog/clickhouse-acquires-peerdb-to-boost-real-time-analytics-with-postgres-cdc-integration Debugging story from Clickhouse SRE: https://clickhouse.com/blog/a-case-of-the-vanishing-cpu-a-linux-kernel-debugging-story Essentialism Book: https://www.amazon.com/Essentialism-Disciplined-Pursuit-Greg-McKeown/dp/0804137382

    1h 46m

  5. 09/01/2025

    Episode 41 | Niel Levonius | VP Marketing @ Illumy | Ex Zoom / RingCentral

    Would you like to know how much Zoom paid to acquire the zoom.com domain before the IPO? Today Chad and Steve are talking with Niel Levonius, a high level professional first-call trumpet player in the SF Bay Area and also a tech vetern product marketer with expertise in the VOIP space. Currently launching his own group communication suite as VP of Marketing at Illumy, he previously was the Head of Marketing at Zoom for the Zoom Phone product line as well as Director of Product Marketing at RingCentral. As a musician Niel has traveled around the world to perform or record with many great musicians including Seal, Gladys Knight, The Temptations, The Four Tops, Zac Brown, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Pete Escovedo and many more. He’s also the band leader of the Local Edition Jazz Orchestra and can currently be seen at Local Edition in San Francisco on Tuesday nights. Episode #41 of "Can I get that software in blue?", a podcast by and for peopleengaged in technology sales. If you are in the technology presales, solutionarchitecture, sales, support or professional services career paths then this show is for you! Our website: https://softwareinblue.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/softwareinblue LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/softwareinblue Make sure to subscribe or follow us to get notified about our upcomingepisodes: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8qfPUKO_rPmtvuB4nV87rg Apple Podcasts:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/can-i-get-that-software-in-blue/id1561899125 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25r9ckggqIv6rGU8ca0WP2 Links mentioned in the episode: Local Edition Jazz Orchestra: https://localeditionjazz.com Jazz Mass Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps6z9wIX4xA Jazz Mass Apple music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/missa-iubileum-aureum-golden-jubilee-jazz-mass/1635023899 Jazz Mass Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/7v0wudEKamUVFSo7rFdtC3?si=dOVHQopBTAC9w-CXhVTwGQ Illumy Instant Messaging: https://www.illumy.com Pacific Mambo Orchestra iii side Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkjMxKti4MZjkRyngOUom6QVHS-fx5p0x Pacific Mambo Orchestra iii side Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/1Hc67CbNiXKUAxVzHiWrwT?si=CADwc_KyRU6SQeCbBXDKHQ D. K. Harrell Talkin Heavy Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/3B613bVZ4d0OVnJwRykrIo?si=77vGfvnkThy0d44ifK32Gg

    1 hr

  6. 07/17/2025

    Episode 40 | Kevin Hanson | Co-founder at Vectroid

    Episode #40 of "Can I get that software in blue?", a podcast by and for people engaged in technology sales. If you are in the technology presales, solution architecture, sales, support or professional services career paths then this show is for you! Today Chad and Steve are talking with Kevin Hanson, co-founder of the new vector database startup Vectroid. Kevin started his career as a Solution Architect but during his tenure at MongoDB he made the transition to Account Executive and is one of the few people to be able to make that career change successfully. He later worked in Partner sales at Google Cloud and then moved into Sales Leadership during his time at Grafana Labs. Kevin is a wonderful story teller and brings a lot of great stories about how he made the transition from SA to AE and how his time as an SA informs his thinking as a sales leader and now co-founder. Our website: https://softwareinblue.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/softwareinblue LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/softwareinblue Make sure to subscribe or follow us to get notified about our upcoming episodes: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8qfPUKO_rPmtvuB4nV87rg Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/can-i-get-that-software-in-blue/id1561899125 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25r9ckggqIv6rGU8ca0WP2

    1h 10m

  7. 06/04/2025

    Episode 39 | Alex Jukes | Fractional CTO | Former CTO @ Intropic

    Episode #39 of "Can I get that software in blue?", a podcast by and for people engaged in technology sales. If you are in the technology presales, solution architecture, sales, support or professional services career paths then this show is for you! Today Chad and Steve are talking with Alex Jukes, formerly the CTO of Intropic and now a Fractional CTO helping startups navigate their journey from concept to shipping product. Alex gives a nice in-depth look at how he approaches the job of Fractional CTO, basing it on the tasks the company needs him to perform instead of just a part time bucket of hours. Our website: https://softwareinblue.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/softwareinblue LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/softwareinblue Make sure to subscribe or follow us to get notified about our upcoming episodes: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8qfPUKO_rPmtvuB4nV87rg Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/can-i-get-that-software-in-blue/id1561899125 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25r9ckggqIv6rGU8ca0WP2 Links mentioned in the episode: Why Salesforce Must Die: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7284878009906417664/ Nobody is Hiring Junior Engineers: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/alex-jukes_no-ones-hiring-juniors-engineering-managers-activity-7295756561128259584-hGtH

    1h 15m

  8. 01/31/2025

    Episode 38 | John Engates | Field CTO @ Weaviate | Former CTO @ Rackspace

    Episode #38 of "Can I get that software in blue?", a podcast by and for people engaged in technology sales. If you are in the technology presales, solution architecture, sales, support or professional services career paths then this show is for you! Today Chad and Steve are talking with John Engates, Field CTO at Cloudflare and formerly the CTO and Rackspace. Their conversation includes a discussion of his time at Rackspace and what Rackspace might have done differently during the early rise of AWS, how Cloudflare's network now protects against threats in both directions not just against websites but also against desktop users, and how Rackspace is bringing AI inference to the edge by putting GPUs in their Points-of-Presence around the world. Our website: https://softwareinblue.com Twitter: ⁠https://twitter.com/softwareinblue⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/softwareinblue⁠ Make sure to subscribe or follow us to get notified about our upcoming episodes: Youtube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8qfPUKO_rPmtvuB4nV87rg⁠ Apple Podcasts: ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/can-i-get-that-software-in-blue/id1561899125⁠ Spotify: ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/25r9ckggqIv6rGU8ca0WP2⁠ Links mentioned in the episode: Cloudflare 2024 Year in Review: https://blog.cloudflare.com/radar-2024-year-in-review

    1h 19m
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"Can I get that software in blue?", a podcast by and for people engaged in technology sales. If you are in the technology presales, sales, support or professional services career paths then this show is for you! Your hosts Steve Mayzak and Chad Tindel will take you on a hot-air balloon ride exploring the whimsy and caprice of enterprise software marchitecture sales. https://softwareinblue.com

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