#071 The SDR DiscoCall Show – Ben Read

Neil Bhuiyan's interview with Ben Read, founder of Redeployable, a company that helps military personnel transition to civilian careers. Read shares his journey from being an aircraft engineer to sales at Ricoh and SupplyCompass before eventually starting his own company. He emphasizes the importance of networking, and self-promotion, and encourages military personnel to join the tech industry. Ben also highlights the skills he acquired in the military that helped him succeed in tech sales, such as work ethic, taking responsibility and cross-functional teamwork. He believes that these skills are transferable to the SaaS industry where people from different teams work together to deliver value to the customer. Ben followed in the footsteps of his older siblings and joined the British Army in 2005. He left in 2017 after a friend recommended that he'd do well in tech, and he quickly realised that the skills developed in the military were a springboard to success. Fast forward four promotions and five years, and Ben founded Redeployable to help service leavers realise their potential in the most exciting industry in the world.