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The Three Types of Customer Success Teams

Tom Tunguz

A decade ago, Gainsight championed the creation of the customer success category. People curious and passionate about customer success convened at the Pulse conference to debate customer success. In 2013 and 2015, the discipline’s merits dominated the conversation.

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How Many Customer Support Reps Do You Need? These 4 Stats Will Tell You Everything.

Sales Hacker

For years, our hiring strategy for the HubSpot customer support team was simple. When support reps were overwhelmed with the volume of work, we’d hire another one. This simplistic model of growth worked to get the support team to about 25 people. I had just taken over the support team at HubSpot. Simple, right?

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Zoom pushes further into the contact center with Solvvy acquisition

IT World

Founded in 2013, Solvvy offers an AI-powered self-service customer support agent aimed at easing the load on customer support teams by dealing with simple requests before handing over to a human agent. Customers include technology companies like Calendly, Calm, Seat Geek, and Scribd.

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29 Latin American SaaS Superstars

SaaStock

Omie main goal is to bridge the efficiency gap in Brazilian SMB, helping customers to be more prosperous. Founded : 2013. Founded : 2013. Founded : 2013. Aivo offers Artificial Intelligence solutions for customer service, so that businesses can provide their clients with outstanding experiences. Founded : 2013.

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Top 10 Tools to Get Your App PLG-d

Frontegg

Founded: 2013 Known customers: Lyft, Clearbit, Amplitude, AdRoll, Segment Price starts at: $249/month. #3 Founded: 2013 Known customers: Marketo, RedHat, Cisco, Okta, Infor, Citrix, BMC Price starts at: Not Provided Publically. #5 Best For: Customer Support Services. 3 Frontegg. How is that achieved?

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Benchmarking Zendesk's S-1 - How 7 Key SaaS Metrics Stack Up

Tom Tunguz

Zendesk is a 700 person company that builds customer support software. It’s a remarkable business primarily because the founders and the team have built an incredibly efficient customer acquisition funnel. Zendesk has matched the SaaS median for revenue growth each year, and slightly exceeded it in 2013.

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Benchmarking Hubspot's S-1 - How 7 Key SaaS Metrics Stack Up

Tom Tunguz

in 2009 revenue to 2013 revenue of $71M - an 88% CAGR. HubSpot’s average revenue per customer (ARPC) of about $7,752 is the fourth smallest of the companies I analyzed. I've estimated $113M in revenue for 2014 by extrapolating their first six months of revenue this year and applying the 2013 growth rate to it.