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Guru’s Rick Nucci on using automation to scale your customer experience

Intercom, Inc.

Rick started Guru in 2013, after successfully founding Boomi (a cloud integration and data management company) and selling it to Dell. The first steps to transforming your support team into a revenue team are to rethink your metrics and incentivize teams to ask “Why?” Rick : Great, great question. It has to be CEO-down.

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Why Your Data Doesn’t Make Sense: 5 Things I Learned From Narrator Co-Founder Cedric Dussud

FastSpring

It’s Cedric Dussud’s first week on the job as the new engineering director at WeWork. There were a lot of lessons that stood out to me, including: Why metrics often don’t add up. Data science has a key difference from software engineering. Be Skeptical About Your Metrics. But it’s growing fast.

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10 Years In Tech

Outseta

Best of all, the types of smart people that you run into in tech run the gamut from highly technical software engineers, to massively creative designers and marketers, to analytical data wizzes and finance experts. As a US citizen, it’s very clear to me that many of our best and brightest go into this field.

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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

Most recently, she held a variety of executive roles at Sailthru from 2013-2020, ultimately becoming the company’s Chief Revenue Officer. are just as critical as understanding the fundamental SaaS metrics such as LTV/CAC, payback, etc. Katie Carty Tierney is an Area Vice President for the Americas at BMC Software.

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