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I'm here with Josh so Josh just recently joined Team pleo
as our newest member to the BDR team but I think what's really cool to share in
this video is the process of how he got in and a lot of people are applying a
lot of people try to get into startups but thinking a bit outside of the box in
terms of trying to get some attention and and where you can add value but let
me just hand it over to Josh so yeah I'm Josh I'm originally from South Africa
grew up in the UK and then been living back in South Africa for since I was 16
till about 22 then decided to go travelling in Australia in New Zealand
for a few years during my time in Australia and New Zealand I'll actually
working as a door-to-door salesman. Door-to-dor salesman!
so yeah I was looking for a job and I knew the address so I just kind of
knocked on the door and wandered in everyone was there a little bit shocked
but it turned our working really well because no one else had done
that and this is so so cool so I remember this we were late we're all
working all of a sudden Torbjorn came over and said this guy's hear and is
applying for a job so Josh literally just walked into the pleo office
unannounced and say hey I'm interested in applying for the business development
role can I do that now and who does that like who does that today and that's what
kind of got our attention right away we jumped out of our meetings I think he
met ML first yeah I met everybody and then me and then we were like this is
interesting so then I introduced well we introduced him to the whole BDR team and
he kind of had a chat and then I remember this so vividly the guys came
out of that meeting and said hire this guy hire him tomorrow so what did we do
we hired Josh the next day and I think that's a special case it is very rare
but I think the important point that we wanted to make with this video is that
be a bit bold be a bit different and be authentic and like the reason why
I think this worked for Josh it's his style like he's a door-to-door sales guy
he's done it before never done the emailing stuff never done the phone call
stuff but what's been like what a month now just I know just over a month a
about five weeks and he's performing you know he's he's he's gotten into the
rhythm he's he's plugged into the pleo system and I think that's a cool case
study and Denmark show him some love connect with this guy because he's
someone to know for the future pure grit pure getting in front of you
making a good impression that's all for me anything you want to say nope and I
feel very welcome in Denmark so everybody's we're seeing this in Denmark
I love it here and they keep doing you thanks wicked