-: My passion when I was at Pomona was always education,
college access, how do we help more?
Especially for me, like the Latino community,
how can I help more the community and just improve
that college access for these lower income communities?
But say my expertise has always been like in tech
and sales and kinda at a high tech space,
so right now what I love is that I've been able to combine
both, my passion for technology/high tech and my passion
for education, and college access higher education.
So right now the way how I see it, is I don't feel
that I have a sales job,
I feel that I go out there and I help.
The more I help schools engage their alumni,
the more they're able to fundraise,
and the more money they're able to provide
for scholarships for incoming students.
So at the end of the day,
I feel that I'm not just selling anything, I am making
a change, even though it might appear that it's
a couple steps removed, that's why I feel
that I really...
am making a change.
Still educating the market on this new product,
on this new platform, on this new channel of communication.
So I'd say that's still the hardest thing,
getting universities in this higher education space
to accept that messaging is
the next channel of communication,
the same way how emails ended up replacing phone
and print, now there is messaging that will
ultimately be replacing email.
Maybe not completely, but substantial amount of emails
will no longer be used when it's replaced
by a messaging platform.