Jon Rooney: Humanities major to Product Manager to Marketing Executive

On Path

Here are some relevant links from the conversation:

• Jon Rooney on LinkedIn
• Scott Guthrie

Show notes:

• 1:30 Crash course in programming
• 3:05 Considering careers outside academia
• 3:21 Andersen Consulting
• 5:38 Instilling discipline at on-boarding
• 6:58 An outsider in tech?
• 8:37 Not even rocket science is rocket science
• 10:09 What's changed about learning new topics
• 11:23 Tech trainings for non-tech teams
• 12:00 San Francisco at the peak of the dot-com bubble
• 15:35 Monetizing the long-tail
• 16:48 Mass layoffs
• 20:19 Working on Windows Azure
• 22:15 Server and Tools at Microsoft
• 23:07 "Don't monetize the developers, get them loving your stack"
• 24:24 The transition from on-premises to cloud
• 28:11 Product Managers doing product marketing
• 30:06 Joining Splunk
• 33:18 Brought in to be the developer marketing person
• 34:05 Internal moves and promotions
• 38:10 Leading product marketing
• 39:48 Hypergrowth: like a new company every year
• 41:07 Zigging when everyone else is zagging
• 44:25 From 80 to 1200 quota-carrying sales reps
• 45:21 New Relic comes calling
• 51:19 Joining Oracle
• 53:15 A remote on-boarding
• 54:01 Early-stage startup or enterprise?