Thank you for tuning into IoT Connect where we’re covering the most interesting topics, trends, and news around the internet of things. IoT Connect is brought to you by TEAL, a patented, GSMA certified eSIM platform that connects any IoT device, onto any network worldwide. Our guest, Mark Cranney has successfully led three high-growth companies to Unicorn-status in his career as an operator.
He was the COO at Skydio, an enterprise and consumer drone company where he led all operations and go-to-market strategy for the company.
Prior to Skydio, Mark was COO at SignalFX and he was the founding operating partner of Andreessen Horowitz’s market development team. Mark led worldwide-field operations for Opsware and his company-building skills at Opsware are well chronicled in two of Ben Horowitz’s books: “The Hard Thing About Hard Things” and “What You Do Is Who You Are”.
Mark has seen what it takes to achieve greatness and it was a pleasure to have this go to market legend of the sales game on our podcast.
In this episode we cover the following:
• How are drones helping with things like national defense, with first responders and even with enterprises
• How to ensure that things that move, like drones, stay reliably connected?
• Cranney Farms and Mark’s background in farming. How IoT is having a positive impact on farming
• The promise of eSIM technology
• The most exciting IoT technologies that will make a dent in the universe in the next 3-5 years
• Go-to-market advice for founders and other pioneers
You don't want to miss this episode of IoT Connect so be sure to have a listen!
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