SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

333: Bridget Gleason is the Head of Sales and Customer Success @ Tidelift, the company providing managed open source, backed by maintainers. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Bridget made her way into the world of SaaS and Sales and came to be Head of both Sales and Customer Success at Tidelift. * What works?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

Anthony : I’ll add more too and this sounds like a sponsored answer, but customer success becomes even more important as we sort of think about where growth is coming from. Obviously, marketing and investments are expensive and we know the cost to keep a customer is obviously a lot less. I mean, literally. Aaron : No.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. Retail was mentioned twice, that’s it, and AWS was mentioned 78 times, so it’s probably not surprising that they’re doing this. I think it’s a really staggering stat.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. That company only lasted another year before they were out of business, so it was a poor use of my energy, time, and being away from my family – a lesson I work to pass on to others new in roles today. Invest in your development internally and externally. Joyce Johnson.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

But if freemium is right for you, you’ll need to constantly innovate, iterate and evolve – and then, hopefully, gain the traction you need to stand out in a crowded market full of other free products. Freemium Model for SaaS – The Good, The Bad, and The In-between. How These Freemium SaaS Companies Are Redefining Customer Success.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Before Assist, Liat spent 6 years at Twitter where she first hand saw their hyper-growth, managing a team of 40 across New York and SF and also Liat achieved 102% to quota on average every year. How does Liat think Airtable is pushing up against the traditional customer success model? What changes with children?

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OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2019

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). Meanwhile, marketing teams from every competitor fight to rank on the same top keywords, driving costs per click through the roof. They aren’t alone.

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