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Top 10 Mistakes In 10 Years From Gainsight CEO Nick Mehta

SaaStr

But what I learned, after years of procrastinating on tough moves for our leadership team, is that the leaders’ teams suffer greatly through that inaction. Mistake: Not being myself Our first Pulse conference – which became the industry event for Customer Success – was in a small San Francisco ballroom in 2013.

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Top 50 Women Leaders in Customer Success 2022

SmartKarrot

Her portfolio is gilded with leadership roles like board director, investor, COO, and P&L owner. An alumna of Yale and Stanford, Allison has contributed to the Customer Success industry as the COO of Gainsight, a prominent customer success company, and a 1B USD unicorn. Donna Weber. Emilia D’Anzica. Irit Eizips.

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The 18 Outstanding Speakers at SaaStock LatAm 2019

SaaStock

In 2016, he co-founded Meetime, an Inside Sales Strategies company and now serves as its CMO, building a powerful branding and content creation operation. Talk: SaaS.City Bootcamp: Sales Leadership. Talk: SaaS.City Bootcamp: Sales Leadership. Talk: SaaS.City Bootcamp: Sales Leadership. In 2013, he co-founded Vindi.

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SaaStr Podcast #364 with Figma Head of Sales Kyle Parrish

SaaStr

I think you come in with some perceptions, like in San Francisco at that time, it was 2013 when we moved, Dropbox was a household name. And when it’s not, what is leadership doing to improve that? Kyle Parrish: I would say, for my leadership style, I’ve kind of held back on adding more Zoom happy hours and socials.

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“The “Dos & Don’ts” of Building Winning SaaS Companies with G2 Crowd (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Lars was one of his early customers at Cloudera and I met him at Dreamforce in 2013 and unbeknownst to me and my business partner Matt Gourniak, he came up to us. And for many years I had this cloud of anxiety in my forehead, which was my company. He was a big machine’s customer, and he was actually heckling us.

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From Freemium to Explosive Growth in a Crowded Market – 8 Years of Learnings with Zoom (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

So, two years after you started your company is when you released the first product to general availability. That was January 2013. And, by May 2013, I think you had a million participants already? Mallun Yen: So, let’s turn to product now. Eric Yuan : Yep, that’s right.

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SaaStr Podcast #398 with Salsify Co-Founder & CMO Rob Gonzalez

SaaStr

Rob Gonzalez: And in 2012 and 2013, the early versions of the product, and frankly, even through halfway in 2014, they were hard to sell for exactly the reason that you’re talking about. I mean, you get hundreds and hundreds of people in the company and there’s personnel stuff that pops up. What does it mean to you?