Changing Tables Podcast

In this interview, we talk to Earl Watts --a sales manager at one of Silicon Valley’s hottest startups, Xamarin (acquired by Microsoft in 2016). Xamarin builds developer tools which help C# developers build fully native apps for iOS and Android with a shared code-base. For those of you outside of tech, that basically means it makes it possible for companies to build cross-platform apps at a fraction of the typical cost.

Earl had an interesting, winding journey going from a pre-Law student, to running the desk at Enterprise Rent-a-Car, to becoming a prominent manager at Xamarin.

Pre-Law --> Car Rental Sales --> SaaS Sales

Listen Time: 40 minutes

All music is courtesy of freemusicarchive.org.
Intro Track by: The Underscore Orkestra (Creative Commons Non-Commercial)
Outtro Track by: Lizzie Miles (Public Domain)

This is a republish of the Changing Tables podcast. This episode was originally published in September 2015. 

In this episode, we talk to Clarisse Valera, a front end web developer at Beepi, a rapidly growing tech startup headquartered in Los Altos, California. Beepi runs an online peer-to-peer marketplace for buying and selling used cars, where transactions can be carried out entirely with a smart phone or a PC. Basically, it used to be pretty annoying to buy and sell a used car --but with Beepi, you can do that with ease. And they’ll deliver the car to you personally if you buy one!

Clarisse worked as an assistant at a law firm for a few years before she decided to make the leap and chase her dream of building websites. She came up with a carefully crafted plan to execute on this change, and her results speak for themselves. She is responsible for maintaining some of Beepi’s most important web pages, and she’s happier than ever before.

Pre-Law --> Legal Assistant at Law Firm --> Front End Web Developer

All music is in the public domain, courtesy of publicdomain4u.com/
Intro Track by: Sligo Maids Lament by Paddy Killoran
Outtro Track by: They Cant Take That Away From Me by Billie Holiday

This is a republishing of the Changing Tables podcast. This episode was originally recorded in September 2015.