Why He Left a Successful Tech Sales Career to Start From Zero | Joel Robnett
In this episode of the Cowles Ventures Podcast, Blake sits down with Joel Robnett, Founding Partner at North by Northwest Technologies, to break down his path from law school plans and a first day of work on 9/11, through two decades in tech sales at companies like Data Domain and Nimble Storage before their acquisitions by EMC and HP, to co-founding his own company.
We talk about:
Why he walked away from a successful sales and management career to start something from zero
What it actually felt like to make that jump, and the mindset shift from "what am I giving up" to "do I have what it…
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