111: Training for Salesforce with Don Robins Part 1

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Don Robins is a Salesforce MVP, technical educator and instructor, author, and speaker. With over 35 years of experience in the software development space, Don has an extensive background in custom business applications. Having zero CRM background, Don navigated his way through Salesforce, fell in love with it, and has been with Salesforce ever since. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">An award-winning Salesforce Instructor, Don has presented at annual Dreamforce conferences since 2010 and has been facilitating Salesforce developer classes and workshops.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This is a two-part conversation where Don shares how he got into Salesforce, his long career educating people, some of his thoughts on the platform, and finally, an interesting formula.</span></p> <p><strong>Show Highlights:</strong></p> <p> </p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Don’s early years and his career doing voice-overs </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Building business applications and creating a relational database</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">His first Salesforce experience having zero CRM background </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">What he loves about Salesforce</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Productivity tools in the early days</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Mastering the complexities and the interdependencies in the metadata</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Why we need to put our focus on DevOps</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>Links:</strong></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Connect with Robin on these platforms:</span></p> <ul> <li style="fo