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129: ISV Development with Michael Holt

Michael Holt is a Technical Evangelist here at Salesforce. He really began to sink his teeth into coding in college when he started playing around with Visual Basic 6. From there, he started to learn Java and Accenture and eventually came into contact with Salesforce. He moved over to the company five and half years ago and has been an ISV technical evangelist ever since.

 

Michael is joining us today to talk all about ISV development. We discuss the ISV programs that help people get up and running as an ISV and success stories Michael has had the opportunity to be a part of. Finally, we talk about some interesting code he has written on GitHub that helps ISVs.

 

Tune in to hear Michael’s interesting insights and stories, all from the perspective of the ISV side of Salesforce.

 

Show Highlights:

  • How Michael got introduced to computers and eventually Salesforce.
  • His experience with operating system migrations.
  • What attracted Michael to Salesforce.
  • What his current role looks like.
  • The blended ecosystem of partners he works with.
  • The revenue model he and his team utilize.
  • What the Business Builder Program is.
  • What’s included in the ISV workbook.
  • The tools included in the partner business org Michael and his team provide all their partners.
  • Michael’s JabberJaw project and its use cases.

 

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