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11 Key SaaS Roles and Responsibilities in 2023

User Pilot

Before hiring, assess your current needs and hire as your company grows. The different roles in SaaS companies: Chief Executive Officer : As the highest-ranking executive, this person ensures the company runs smoothly and employees are happy and engaged. In large companies, the CSM also oversees other customer success roles.

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2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast

Intercom, Inc.

It’s been 10 years since co-founders Eoghan McCabe , Des Traynor , David Barrett , and Ciaran Lee sat in a small Dublin coffee shop and dreamed of making internet business personal, and we’re still every bit as excited. Farhan Virji , Vice President of Customer Happiness at Later. Will Larson , CTO of Calm.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Bernadette Nixon, Jay Snyder, Nick Mehta, Loren Padelford, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

So I’m Nick Mehta, CEO of Gainsight and you probably have heard of Gainsight in the world of customer success and really excited to have two different voices in the world of how companies think about their customers. Jay Snyder: Got hotspot on my phone, so hopefully we’ll hold still.

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

SaaStr

I sell highly engineered complex pumps and I can’t sell them like a book online.” ” But being out here in California at the time I saw what Cisco was doing, what Dell was doing. Dell was selling configural PCs online. And for me as I mentioned BigMachines is a very personal problem. You’re dot com.

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PODCAST 93: The Journey from 2x Founder to VC with Angus Davis

Sales Hacker

Angus is an amazing person — who never went to college. After graduating from high school, he moved out to Mountain View to work at Netscape, the first massive modern internet success story, with Marc Andreessen. Angus is an amazing person — he never went to college. Success without College [2:46].

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Former Moveworks CIO and Lucidchart Co-Founder/CEO — December 13, 2019

SaaStr

Most recently Yousuf was the CIO & VP of Customer Success @ Moveworks, the advanced AI built for enterprise providing automatic resolution of IT issues. During his time at the company, they raised over $108m from Lightspeed, ICONIQ, Kleiner, Sapphire, and Bain Capital. My advice is hire earlier rather than later.

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Is Seed the new Series A? (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We’re a team of former investors and operators from the likes of Facebook, Deliveroo, and the Swedish payments company Klarna. You want to start thinking about customer success and that’s not just support. It’s known that you can probably sell those first couple of contracts.

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