Want a job in tech? Flockjay pitches its sales training service as an on-ramp to tech careers

Jonathan Shieber from techcrunch said that “Most people don’t even know that a job in tech sales is even a possibility,” says Shaan Hathiramani, the founder and chief executive of Flockjay, a company offering a tech sales training curriculum to the masses.

Hathiramani sees his startup as an on-ramp to the tech industry for legions of workers who have the skillsets to work in tech, but lack the network to see themselves in the business. Just like coding bootcamps have enabled thousands to get jobs as programmers in the tech business, Flockjay can get into the industry talented people who had never considered a job in tech.

The company — which had previously raised $3 million from investors, including Serena Williams and Will Smith, along with tech industry luminaries like Microsoft chairman John Thompson, Airtable head of sales Liat Bycel, Gmail inventor Paul Buchheit, and former Netflix CPO Tom Willerer — has just raised new capital to expand its business in a time when accelerated on-ramps to new jobs have never been more important.

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