When to follow up?

[moebius_strip]

Hello all,

Recently I got invited by a very big tech company to give a talk at their annual symposium. There I talked with the GM and CEO about the possibility of the company funding 2 Ph.D. students to work on topics related to the company. They seemed excited. However, the GM is not very responsive to my emails and in the last email I got 1.5 month ago he said that I should wait till he finds time to talk to the CEO. I followed up 2-3 weeks after that email and heard nothing. I am thinking of sending one last email and calling it a day. What do you think?

Thank you :)

[Parasaurolophus]

Sounds about right to me, although I think I'd probably wait a while longer.

[ciao_yall]

Hello all,

Recently I got invited by a very big tech company to give a talk at their annual symposium. There I talked with the GM and CEO about the possibility of the company funding 2 Ph.D. students to work on topics related to the company. They seemed excited. However, the GM is not very responsive to my emails and in the last email I got 1.5 month ago he said that I should wait till he finds time to talk to the CEO. I followed up 2-3 weeks after that email and heard nothing. I am thinking of sending one last email and calling it a day. What do you think?

Thank you :)

Can you talk to him at the annual symposium?

[bopper]

Look at #3 on this article:
https://www.askamanager.org/2019/12/fitness-emails-accidentally-sent-personal-email.html

You want to make sure it doesn't seem like a quid pro quo.

[moebius_strip]

Thank you all. I took the plunge and send an email. Apparently the GM was away. I should have news soon. Fingers crossed!