"Operations At Verkada" False Marketing
Virtually every industry professional has been solicited by people calling themselves "Operations at Verkada". Virtually, none of those are in operations, if they are actually even real people.
Inside this note, we examine a Verkada marketing hack that underlies their massive marketing effort and Verkada's VP of Marketing Idan Koren's response to IPVM.
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*** ** **** ** **** ***** or ** *** **** ********?
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* ***** *** *** ***** ****** reflects **** * ****** ** ** reading ** *** *******.
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