This week, Coté and Matt define three sales model for doing developer-led sales. Also, we know that clown fish are optional, but do rocks need to exist?

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Mood Board:

• How many of you watch streaming?


• hotdogheadexplosion37 - “I’m your host, exploding hotdog.”


• hotdogheadexplosion37 solves agile financing problems.


• I’m your host, ExplodingHotDogMan


• What if rocks didn’t exist?


• I didn’t take “Philosophy of Rocks 101 in college, but I did take hydrobiology 379.”


• This is what happens when Brandon’s not here


• Legal week


• B to D sales


• The Janitorial Sales Model - vendor creates mess, drives uncontrolled/ungoverned/decentralized viral spread.


• The Mary Poppins Model


• Graffiti Proof Paint Model

Rundown

• Rocks.


• The End of Daylight Saving Time?


• Dell Striving To ‘Embrace Developers In A Big Way’: Michael Dell

Relevant to your Interests

• Congratulations to The Cloudcast, 600 Shows!


• Death by PowerPoint: the slide that killed seven people — mcdreeamie-musings


• Birdeye Raises $60M Series C Funding Led by Accel-KKR to Help Local Businesses Grow


• Commercial satellites test the rules of war in Russia-Ukraine conflict


• Google Cloud and VMware expand partnership with focus on cloud migrations


• The Conversation: Twitter Trends 2022


• Google's domain name registrar is out of beta after seven years


• Amazon just introduced a bizarre metaverse-like game to train people how to use AWS


• The first RISC-V portable computer is now available


• Launching Valid Capital


• Veracode Announces Significant Growth Investment From TA Associates | Veracode


• Canonical bullish on OpenStack


• Facebook’s Parent Company Will Make Employees Do Their Own Laundry


• The next big SaaS player will be the company that solves enterprise billing


• The long-term strategy behind IBM's Red Hat purchase


• HashiCorp beats expectations in first quarterly earnings report since going public


• Oracle's cloud business seen as 'the driver,' of Q3 results

Nonsense

• Facebook Libra: the inside story of how the company’s cryptocurrency dream died


• Winamp joins LimeWire in the emerging "legacy software comes back from the dead to do NFTs" trope


• One of the greatest videos in all of sports


• The time Vladimir Putin stole Robert Kraft's Super Bowl ring

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Recommendations

• Coté: Amazon Fresh store in London


• Matt: The Kubernetes Podcast 170: The Kubernetes Documentary

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