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Pharma Sales To Med Device CEO: The Jeff Smith Story Part 2

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It was 2007 and 2008. It was June of 2008. I pitched it to my manager at the time, Steve Carmody, who is my Regional Sales Manager. This was from 2008 to 2014. McCormack , who had been my customer that is a spine surgeon in San Francisco, calls me out of the blue and was like, “I want to tell you about an idea.”

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Deep Career Insights And A Side Of Orthopedics With Eric Ford Part 1

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I graduated in 2008. We all know what the markets were doing in 2008. I have sales experience. Senior year, the first semester, I got my job offer from Johnson & Johnson, the same company I was with several years later. That’s unheard of. Once again, I was extremely fortunate, and my mindset was a little bit different.

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