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Pharma Sales To Med Device CEO: The Jeff Smith Story Part 2

Evolve Your Success

In this second segment of a two-part interview, serial entrepreneur Jeff Smith shares how he found his passion and mission through pharmaceutical sales. It was 2007 and 2008. The problem was that I lived as a pharmaceutical sales representative where the whole primary care market had been inundated and overrun with reps.

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Enterprising Yourself At The Top Of The Spine Distributorship Game With Daniel Tighe

Evolve Your Success

He’s like, “You’d be a perfect fit for pharmaceutical sales or medical device sales. This is 2007. By the time I got into it, which I graduated in ‘22, I got my first job in medical sales by 26. The scientist at the time that we were working for at the lab, we were working on a diuretic.

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Beating the Big C

Pharmaceutical Technology

Between 2003 and 2005 global sales for cancer-treating drugs grew by 40% According to IMS Health, who tracks prescription drug sales, the global market for cancer drugs is still growing rapidly with around $48bn spent on oncology products in 2008; a figure which accounts for 17% of worldwide pharmaceutical sales.