{"id":5384,"date":"2015-07-17T10:46:56","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T14:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=5384"},"modified":"2015-07-18T23:30:28","modified_gmt":"2015-07-19T03:30:28","slug":"two-hard-skillsets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/two-hard-skillsets\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Hard Skillsets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Larry Chiang is an instructional humorist and has a JBA (<a href=\"https:\/\/austinstartuparchive.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/13\/jba-is-a-jedi-in-business-administration\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jedi in Business Administration<\/a>). He will get you your ROI for Stanford Business School before attending Stanford GSB. After a Harvard Law School event, Harvard Business School wrote: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.harbus.org\/2009\/What-They-Dont-Teach-4531\/\" target=\"_blank\">What They Don\u2019t Teach You at Stanford Business School<\/a>\u201c. He taught ENGR145 2010 &#8211; 2013 as an &#8220;E.I.R.&#8217; and now mentors us on how to combine both &#8220;CS&#8221; and &#8216;sales&#8217;; Two verrrrrrry hard skillsets.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/whattheydontteachyouatstanfordbusinessschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/cropped-head-shot-no-smile.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-743\" title=\"Larry-Chiang\" src=\"https:\/\/whattheydontteachyouatstanfordbusinessschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/cropped-head-shot-no-smile.jpg\" alt=\"Larry Chiang\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>STANFORD UNIVERSITY;<br \/>\nStanford, CALIF. 94305<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20100201040226\/https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/What-Teach-Stanford-Business-School\/dp\/0615301487\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Larry Chiang<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/613751289587957760\/ZN0VKUOa_normal.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/td>\n<td><b style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Larry Chiang (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang\/status\/622050970986348545?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">7\/17\/15, 7:31 AM<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">The toughest part of having an engineering degree is setting it aside to speak to mayors in protocol of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23DeBlasioUber&amp;src=hash\">#DeBlasioUber<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/t7Dp5Lzvhx\">pic.twitter.com\/t7Dp5Lzvhx<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>By Larry Chiang<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Getting a CS degree is &#8220;hard&#8221;.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Speaking to seasoned executives is hard also. They&#8217;re hard in polar opposite ways. They&#8217;ve almost no overlap. Doing both helps you because few know CS. Few know selling to old people. \u00a0Almost no one can do both.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Take this seasoned exec that Travis is trying to &#8220;sell&#8221;:<\/div>\n<div>\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/509477657986076672\/oXTskFFW_normal.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/td>\n<td><b style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">_cribe_ (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cribedreher?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">@cribedreher<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cribedreher\/status\/621810788349681664?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">7\/16\/15, 3:36 PM<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">love what\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Uber_NYC\">@Uber_NYC<\/a>\u00a0did today\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23deblasiouber&amp;src=hash\">#deblasiouber<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23epic&amp;src=hash\">#epic<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3xV62UUNhj\">techcrunch.com\/2015\/07\/16\/ube\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"A63F5B70-459D-4B5D-8546-EFDFB0E1947F\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/image132.jpg\" alt=\"image1.JPG\" \/><\/div>\n<p>DeBlasio is the mayor of NYC.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/613751289587957760\/ZN0VKUOa_normal.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/td>\n<td><b>Larry Chiang (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang\/status\/622051841010839552?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">7\/17\/15, 7:34 AM<\/a><\/div>\n<div>CS majors coded this!!!! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23DeBlasioUber&amp;src=hash\">#DeBlasioUber<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/c72lsb0zoF\">techcrunch.com\/2015\/07\/16\/ube\u2026<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>I get the very strong feeling that Mayor deBlasio will get sold by the voting citizens on NYC &#8212; remember computer code helped. Remember, selling skills helped. [lobbying is definitely a form of sales and at the heart of seasoned executive whispering]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"F1137051-0584-465D-B188-EEA7897DD062\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/image226.jpg\" alt=\"image2.JPG\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eudADPfTWiE&amp;sns=em\"><embed src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/eudADPfTWiE&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WVKHwYJzVVc&amp;sns=em\"><embed src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WVKHwYJzVVc&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Chiang is an instructional humorist and has a JBA (Jedi in Business Administration). He will get you your ROI for Stanford Business School before attending Stanford GSB. After a Harvard Law School event, Harvard Business School wrote: \u201cWhat They Don\u2019t Teach You at Stanford Business School\u201c. He taught ENGR145 2010 &#8211; 2013 as an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entrepreneurship","category-stanford-entrepreneurship"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}