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Can I get that software in blue?

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"Can I get that software in blue?", a podcast by and for people engaged in technology sales. If you are in the technology presales, sales, support or professional services career paths then this show is for you!

Your hosts Steve Mayzak and Chad Tindel will take you on a hot-air balloon ride exploring the whimsy and caprice of enterprise software marchitecture sales. https://softwareinblue.com

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  • S1 · E45
    May 4 · 1 hr 5 min

    Education & Leadership at Columbia — Dr. Roberta Lenger Kang

    Episode #45 of "Can I get that software in blue?", a podcast by and for people engaged in technology sales. If you are in the technology presales, sales, support or professional services career paths then this show is for you! Contact us on Twitter or LinkedIn to suggest companies or tech news articles worthy of the podcast! Twitter: https://twitter.com/softwareinblue LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/softwareinblue Make sure to subscribe or follow us to get notified about our upcoming episodes: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@softwareinblue Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/can-i-get-that-software-in-blue/id1561899125 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25r9ckggqIv6rGU8ca0WP2 Show Notes and Links Mentioned: : https://cpet.tc.columbia.edu/articles-author-roberta-lenger-kang.html https://cpet.tc.columbia.edu/teaching-today.html https://www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025/08/21/brooklyn-high-school-uses-ai-to-improve-student-writing/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/08/ai-takeover-education-chatgpt/683840/

  • S1 · E44
    February 17 · 1 hr 3 min

    From Tech to Dog Rescue — Ian Spandow

    Episode #44 of "Can I get that software in blue?", a podcast by and for people engaged in technology sales. If you are in the technology presales, sales, support or professional services career paths then this show is for you! Contact us on Twitter or LinkedIn to suggest companies or tech news articles worthy of the podcast! Twitter: https://twitter.com/softwareinblue LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/softwareinblue Make sure to subscribe or follow us to get notified about our upcoming episodes: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@softwareinblue Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/can-i-get-that-software-in-blue/id1561899125 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25r9ckggqIv6rGU8ca0WP2 Show Notes and Links Mentioned: Ian's Book ""Rescuing Dogs and Salespeople: Memoir of a Mutt"": https://www.amazon.com/Rescuing-Dogs-Salespeople-Memoir-Mutt/dp/B0F6M2T324 Ian's Dog Rescue: https://spandowhouse.com/

  • S1 · E43
    January 6 · 59 min

    AI for Real-World Physical Jobs — Jon Soini, ProofSight CEO

    Episode #43 of "Can I get that software in blue?", a podcast by and for people engaged in technology sales. If you are in the technology presales, sales, support or professional services career paths then this show is for you! Contact us on Twitter or LinkedIn to suggest companies or tech news articles worthy of the podcast! Twitter: https://twitter.com/softwareinblue LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/softwareinblue Make sure to subscribe or follow us to get notified about our upcoming episodes: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@softwareinblue Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/can-i-get-that-software-in-blue/id1561899125 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25r9ckggqIv6rGU8ca0WP2 Show Notes and Links Mentioned: : https://www.proofsight.com

  • S1 · E42
    Oct 12, 2025 · 1 hr 45 min

    ClickHouse: Product & Growth — Tanya Bragin Returns

    Episode #42 of "Can I get that software in blue?", a podcast by and for people engaged in technology sales. If you are in the technology presales, sales, support or professional services career paths then this show is for you! Contact us on Twitter or LinkedIn to suggest companies or tech news articles worthy of the podcast! Twitter: https://twitter.com/softwareinblue LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/softwareinblue Make sure to subscribe or follow us to get notified about our upcoming episodes: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@softwareinblue Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/can-i-get-that-software-in-blue/id1561899125 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25r9ckggqIv6rGU8ca0WP2 Show Notes and Links Mentioned: Clickhouse HyperDX acquisition: https://clickhouse.com/blog/clickhouse-acquires-hyperdx-the-future-of-open-source-observability Clickhouse PeerDB acquisition: https://clickhouse.com/blog/clickhouse-acquires-peerdb-to-boost-real-time-analytics-with-postgres-cdc-integration Debugging story from Clickhouse SRE: https://clickhouse.com/blog/a-case-of-the-vanishing-cpu-a-linux-kernel-debugging-story Essentialism Book: https://www.amazon.com/Essentialism-Disciplined-Pursuit-Greg-McKeown/dp/0804137382

  • S1 · E41
    Sep 1, 2025 · 1 hr

    Unified Comms: Zoom to Illumy — Niel Levonius

    Episode #41 of "Can I get that software in blue?", a podcast by and for people engaged in technology sales. If you are in the technology presales, sales, support or professional services career paths then this show is for you! Contact us on Twitter or LinkedIn to suggest companies or tech news articles worthy of the podcast! Twitter: https://twitter.com/softwareinblue LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/softwareinblue Make sure to subscribe or follow us to get notified about our upcoming episodes: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@softwareinblue Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/can-i-get-that-software-in-blue/id1561899125 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25r9ckggqIv6rGU8ca0WP2 Show Notes and Links Mentioned: Local Edition Jazz Orchestra: https://localeditionjazz.com Jazz Mass Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps6z9wIX4xA Jazz Mass Apple music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/missa-iubileum-aureum-golden-jubilee-jazz-m Jazz Mass Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/7v0wudEKamUVFSo7rFdtC3?si=dOVHQopBTAC9w-CXhVTwGQ Illumy Instant Messaging: https://www.illumy.com Pacific Mambo Orchestra iii side Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkjMxKti4MZjkRyngO Pacific Mambo Orchestra iii side Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/1Hc67CbNiXKUAxVzHiWrwT?si= D. K. Harrell Talkin Heavy Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/3B613bVZ4d0OVnJwRykrIo?si=77vGfvnkThy0d44ifK32Gg

  • S1 · E40
    Jul 17, 2025 · 1 hr 9 min

    Building Vectroid — Kevin Hanson, Co-Founder

    Episode #40 of "Can I get that software in blue?", a podcast by and for people engaged in technology sales. If you are in the technology presales, sales, support or professional services career paths then this show is for you! Contact us on Twitter or LinkedIn to suggest companies or tech news articles worthy of the podcast! Twitter: https://twitter.com/softwareinblue LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/softwareinblue Make sure to subscribe or follow us to get notified about our upcoming episodes: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@softwareinblue Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/can-i-get-that-software-in-blue/id1561899125 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25r9ckggqIv6rGU8ca0WP2 Show Notes and Links Mentioned: Kevin Hanson on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevhanson Vectroid: https://vectroid.com/

  • S1 · E39
    Jun 4, 2025 · 1 hr 15 min

    The Fractional CTO Model — Alex Jukes

    Episode #39 of "Can I get that software in blue?", a podcast by and for people engaged in technology sales. If you are in the technology presales, sales, support or professional services career paths then this show is for you! Contact us on Twitter or LinkedIn to suggest companies or tech news articles worthy of the podcast! Twitter: https://twitter.com/softwareinblue LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/softwareinblue Make sure to subscribe or follow us to get notified about our upcoming episodes: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@softwareinblue Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/can-i-get-that-software-in-blue/id1561899125 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25r9ckggqIv6rGU8ca0WP2 Show Notes and Links Mentioned: Why Salesforce Must Die: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7284878009906417664/ Nobody is Hiring Junior Engineers: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/alex-jukes_no-ones-hiring-juniors-engineering-managers-activity-7295756561128259584-hGtH

  • S1 · E38
    Jan 31, 2025 · 1 hr 18 min

    Cloudflare & the Edge — John Engates, Field CTO

    Episode #38 of "Can I get that software in blue?", a podcast by and for people engaged in technology sales. If you are in the technology presales, sales, support or professional services career paths then this show is for you! Contact us on Twitter or LinkedIn to suggest companies or tech news articles worthy of the podcast! Twitter: https://twitter.com/softwareinblue LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/softwareinblue Make sure to subscribe or follow us to get notified about our upcoming episodes: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@softwareinblue Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/can-i-get-that-software-in-blue/id1561899125 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25r9ckggqIv6rGU8ca0WP2 Show Notes and Links Mentioned: Cloudflare 2024 Year in Review: https://blog.cloudflare.com/radar-2024-year-in-review/

  • S1 · E37
    Jan 31, 2025 · 1 hr 34 min

    Building Weaviate & Vector Search — Bob van Luijt, CEO

    Episode #37 of "Can I get that software in blue?", a podcast by and for people engaged in technology sales. If you are in the technology presales, sales, support or professional services career paths then this show is for you! Contact us on Twitter or LinkedIn to suggest companies or tech news articles worthy of the podcast! Twitter: https://twitter.com/softwareinblue LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/softwareinblue Make sure to subscribe or follow us to get notified about our upcoming episodes: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@softwareinblue Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/can-i-get-that-software-in-blue/id1561899125 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25r9ckggqIv6rGU8ca0WP2 Show Notes and Links Mentioned: History of Weaviate: https://weaviate.io/blog/history-of-weaviate Bob's Ted Talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/bob_van_luijt_digital_technology_through_the_lens_of_language University of Kent Meshcode Memory News Article: https://www.kent.ac.uk/news/science/27956/a-new-theory-for-how-memories-are-stored-in-the-brain Meshcode Paper: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33716664/ Antifragile: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifragile_(book) Nearest Neighbor Benchmarks: https://ann-benchmarks.com/ OpenAI and Newscorp Licensing Deal: https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/news-corp-openai-licensing-deal-1236013734/ DSPY self-improving pipelines: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.03714

  • S1 · E36
    Sep 3, 2024 · 1 hr 36 min

    Tech Marketing from Elastic to Snyk — Jeff 'Yosh' Yoshimura

    Episode #36 of "Can I get that software in blue?", a podcast by and for people engaged in technology sales. If you are in the technology presales, sales, support or professional services career paths then this show is for you! Contact us on Twitter or LinkedIn to suggest companies or tech news articles worthy of the podcast! Twitter: https://twitter.com/softwareinblue LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/softwareinblue Make sure to subscribe or follow us to get notified about our upcoming episodes: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@softwareinblue Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/can-i-get-that-software-in-blue/id1561899125 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25r9ckggqIv6rGU8ca0WP2 Show Notes and Links Mentioned: ELK Stack Mr. Robot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sWxfLNV_wE

  • S1 · E35
    Jun 9, 2024 · 58 min

    Unifying Batch & Streaming Data — Dr. Santona Tuli, Upsolver

    Episode #35 of "Can I get that software in blue?", a podcast by and for people engaged in technology sales. If you are in the technology presales, sales, support or professional services career paths then this show is for you! Contact us on Twitter or LinkedIn to suggest companies or tech news articles worthy of the podcast! Twitter: https://twitter.com/softwareinblue LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/softwareinblue Make sure to subscribe or follow us to get notified about our upcoming episodes: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@softwareinblue Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/can-i-get-that-software-in-blue/id1561899125 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25r9ckggqIv6rGU8ca0WP2 Show Notes and Links Mentioned: Dr. Tuli's character profile in "Secrets of the Universe": https://secretsoftheuniversefilm.com/character-profile-dr-santona-tuli/

  • S1 · E34
    Feb 27, 2024 · 1 hr 9 min

    Semantic Search & RAG with LLMs — Shane Connelly, Vectara

    Episode #34 of "Can I get that software in blue?", a podcast by and for people engaged in technology sales. If you are in the technology presales, sales, support or professional services career paths then this show is for you! Contact us on Twitter or LinkedIn to suggest companies or tech news articles worthy of the podcast! Twitter: https://twitter.com/softwareinblue LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/softwareinblue Make sure to subscribe or follow us to get notified about our upcoming episodes: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@softwareinblue Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/can-i-get-that-software-in-blue/id1561899125 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25r9ckggqIv6rGU8ca0WP2 Show Notes and Links Mentioned: History of Lucene: https://www.elastic.co/celebrating-lucene Attention is all you need: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762

  • S1 · E33
    Jan 25, 2024 · 1 hr 20 min

    Marketing & Growth at Dev Tool Startups — Francesca Krihely-Price

    Episode #33 of "Can I get that software in blue?", a podcast by and for people engaged in technology sales. If you are in the technology presales, sales, support or professional services career paths then this show is for you! Contact us on Twitter or LinkedIn to suggest companies or tech news articles worthy of the podcast! Twitter: https://twitter.com/softwareinblue LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/softwareinblue Make sure to subscribe or follow us to get notified about our upcoming episodes: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@softwareinblue Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/can-i-get-that-software-in-blue/id1561899125 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25r9ckggqIv6rGU8ca0WP2 Show Notes and Links Mentioned: : https://devfirst.substack.com/p/kpis-for-developer-relations-teams https://www.amazon.com/Humor-Seriously-Secret-Business-harness/dp/0593135288

  • S1 · E32
    Dec 11, 2023 · 1 hr 23 min

    Vector DBs & RAG — Matt Riley, Elastic VP of Search

    Episode #32 of "Can I get that software in blue?", a podcast by and for people engaged in technology sales. If you are in the technology presales, sales, support or professional services career paths then this show is for you! Contact us on Twitter or LinkedIn to suggest companies or tech news articles worthy of the podcast! Twitter: https://twitter.com/softwareinblue LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/softwareinblue Make sure to subscribe or follow us to get notified about our upcoming episodes: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@softwareinblue Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/can-i-get-that-software-in-blue/id1561899125 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25r9ckggqIv6rGU8ca0WP2 Show Notes and Links Mentioned: Elastic Search Relevant Engine Announcement: https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/new-elastic-search-tool-allows-enterprises-to-harness-generative-ai/2023/05/ Demo of ESRE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJmJTz0Luj0

  • S1 · E31
    Nov 13, 2023 · 1 hr

    Buyer Enablement & Trust — Mark Green, Consensus

    Episode #31 of "Can I get that software in blue?", a podcast by and for people engaged in technology sales. If you are in the technology presales, sales, support or professional services career paths then this show is for you! Contact us on Twitter or LinkedIn to suggest companies or tech news articles worthy of the podcast! Twitter: https://twitter.com/softwareinblue LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/softwareinblue Make sure to subscribe or follow us to get notified about our upcoming episodes: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@softwareinblue Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/can-i-get-that-software-in-blue/id1561899125 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25r9ckggqIv6rGU8ca0WP2 Show Notes and Links Mentioned: Selling is Hard, Buying is Harder: https://www.amazon.com/Selling-Hard-Buying-Harder-Enablement/dp/1632992949 Two presales in a pod Podcast: https://www.linkedin.com/company/2-presales-in-a-pod/ Burning Presales Podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/burning-presales

  • S1 · E30
    Oct 30, 2023 · 1 hr 9 min

    Predictive Analytics in Gambling — Earl Mitchell, Hard Rock Digital

    Episode #30 of "Can I get that software in blue?", a podcast by and for people engaged in technology sales. If you are in the technology presales, sales, support or professional services career paths then this show is for you! Contact us on Twitter or LinkedIn to suggest companies or tech news articles worthy of the podcast! Twitter: https://twitter.com/softwareinblue LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/softwareinblue Make sure to subscribe or follow us to get notified about our upcoming episodes: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@softwareinblue Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/can-i-get-that-software-in-blue/id1561899125 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25r9ckggqIv6rGU8ca0WP2 Show Notes and Links Mentioned: Stephen Wolfram's ChatGPT Explanation: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-doing-and-why-does-it-work/ Sparks of AGI: https://youtu.be/qbIk7-JPB2c?si=5YpTH-2nKH6CkL-b Lex Fridman Interview with Stephen Wolfram: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdE-waSx-d8

  • S1 · E29
    Sep 18, 2023 · 1 hr 43 min

    Building ClickHouse Cloud Pricing Model — Tanya Bragin, VP Product

    Episode #29 of "Can I get that software in blue?", a podcast by and for people engaged in technology sales. If you are in the technology presales, sales, support or professional services career paths then this show is for you! Contact us on Twitter or LinkedIn to suggest companies or tech news articles worthy of the podcast! Twitter: https://twitter.com/softwareinblue LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/softwareinblue Make sure to subscribe or follow us to get notified about our upcoming episodes: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@softwareinblue Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/can-i-get-that-software-in-blue/id1561899125 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25r9ckggqIv6rGU8ca0WP2 Show Notes and Links Mentioned: : https://clickhouse.com/blog/my-journey-as-a-serial-startup-product-manager https://clickhouse.com/blog/vector-search-clickhouse-p1 https://clickhouse.com/blog/vector-search-clickhouse-p2

  • S1 · E28
    Aug 21, 2023 · 57 min

    Building Developer Communities — Stormy Peters, GitHub VP

    Episode #28 of "Can I get that software in blue?", a podcast by and for people engaged in technology sales. If you are in the technology presales, sales, support or professional services career paths then this show is for you! Contact us on Twitter or LinkedIn to suggest companies or tech news articles worthy of the podcast! Twitter: https://twitter.com/softwareinblue LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/softwareinblue Make sure to subscribe or follow us to get notified about our upcoming episodes: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@softwareinblue Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/can-i-get-that-software-in-blue/id1561899125 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25r9ckggqIv6rGU8ca0WP2 Show Notes and Links Mentioned: : https://www.kidsoncomputers.org/

  • S1 · E27
    Jul 28, 2023 · 1 hr 4 min

    Real-Time Data Streaming — Will LaForest, Confluent Field CTO

    Episode #27 of "Can I get that software in blue?", a podcast by and for people engaged in technology sales. If you are in the technology presales, sales, support or professional services career paths then this show is for you! Contact us on Twitter or LinkedIn to suggest companies or tech news articles worthy of the podcast! Twitter: https://twitter.com/softwareinblue LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/softwareinblue Make sure to subscribe or follow us to get notified about our upcoming episodes: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@softwareinblue Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/can-i-get-that-software-in-blue/id1561899125 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25r9ckggqIv6rGU8ca0WP2 Show Notes and Links Mentioned: Will LaForest on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/willlaforest Will LaForest on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WLaForest Confluent: https://www.confluent.io/ Apache Kafka: https://kafka.apache.org/

  • S1 · E26
    Jun 12, 2023 · 59 min

    Building Dev Tools at Scale — Rasmus Makwarth, Bucket & Opbeat

    Episode #26 of "Can I get that software in blue?", a podcast by and for people engaged in technology sales. If you are in the technology presales, sales, support or professional services career paths then this show is for you! Contact us on Twitter or LinkedIn to suggest companies or tech news articles worthy of the podcast! Twitter: https://twitter.com/softwareinblue LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/softwareinblue Make sure to subscribe or follow us to get notified about our upcoming episodes: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@softwareinblue Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/can-i-get-that-software-in-blue/id1561899125 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25r9ckggqIv6rGU8ca0WP2 Show Notes and Links Mentioned: Bucket Homepage: https://bucket.co

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