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As anyone who has ever used JOBZ! can tell you, the software was designed by someone who sold printing. That would be me, Jim Taylor. I sold printing in Silicon Valley for many years, much of that time as a remote rep for a company headquartered in another state. Many of my customers were computer and software companies, so it was natural that I would see if their products could help me with my job. As anyone who has ever been a remote rep can tell you, communications can be a real problem. I started using email before there was an Internet. I graduated from word processing to database software in 1990. I started to share the software with my fellow sales reps. Eventually I became a regional VP of Sales, and we made the program do some management duties. It kept getting more and more capable as I learned how to program better. It became the standard of the company's national sales force.

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