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The Art of Ensuring Customer Success During Mergers and Acquisitions

SmartKarrot

Customer success is one aspect of corporate SaaS mergers and acquisitions that is sometimes overlooked. During mergers and acquisitions, even the slightest operational change can significantly influence both the staff and the clients. Reasons that make customer success essential during mergers and acquisitions. contact-form-7].

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David Barrett, CEO of Expensify: Good Intentions, Bad Advice: How to Keep Your Board Aligned with Your Vision (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

It’s a brutal, awful slog in the start. I would say, it’s always good to call out just how awful it is to be a founder, to be an entrepreneur, because that is a unique perspective that you bring to the board room that no one else shares. That sounds like an awful idea,” and then you have to work for it.

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Engineering Your Own “Luck”: The 3 Key Rules of Building Globally Distributed Teams with Eventbrite (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Now, I have some background with luck because in between some long stints with other companies, seven years at Eventbrite and 15 years at Ticketmaster before, I spent five years of my life playing poker for a living and learned an awful lot about luck and positive outcomes as well. First off, in 2013 we made our first acquisition.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Airtable and Shopify Plus — October 25, 2019

SaaStr

You see the rise of chief digital officers, chief customer officers, CMOs, and that’s where the CEOs are spending more of their time because this is a customer acquisition problem more than it is a customer management problem. Loren Padelford: Yeah. That’s the marketing budget, that’s the merchandising budget.