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Making the jump from Customer Success to CEO with FranConnect’s Gabby Wong

ChurnZero

Additionally, “leapfrog” candidates—those who come from a level below the C-suite, such as senior vice presidents—now make up roughly 5% of new chief execs. They have a core philosophy that you cannot have a successful high-growth software company if your core metrics around Customer Success are not strong, including NPS.

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11 Key SaaS Roles and Responsibilities in 2023

User Pilot

Customer Success Manager: This person is responsible for customer relationships and experience as well as acting as the voice of the customer. In large companies, the CSM also oversees other customer success roles. Much of the success here depends on how competent and motivated the CTO and their team is.

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AMA at SaaStr Annual 2022 with SaaStr Founder & CEO Jason Lemkin – Part 1 (Pod 607 + Video)

SaaStr

But as time went on, we shared lessons, what best practices were in customer success and revenue retention and all these things are, right. But it was super interesting that the two big interviews I did were with Ben Chestnut from Mailchimp yesterday and with Dharmesh and Brian from Hubspot. ” And everyone has this story.

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2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast

Intercom, Inc.

Throughout the year, we’ve talked to business leaders, experts, and pioneers about all kinds of topics: from creating world-class customer experiences to the challenges of running a business during the pandemic, from being an ally and addressing gaps in diversity to building technical leadership careers. Will Larson , CTO of Calm.

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How 13 SaaS Companies Use Community Marketing to Grow

Natalia Luneva

To get more practical, I recently interviewed over 10 SaaS companies and asked them 4 questions: Which platform(s) do you use to run your community? . Announcing new features, increasing customer satisfaction and retention are among the top functions of an online community. . #1 How long has your community been running? .

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2020 SaaS C-Suite Evolving to Support Product and Customer Lifecycle Management

OPEXEngine

Metrics and analysis of customer and the product lifecycles is fundamental to growth decision-making in a SaaS company. The CRO is similar to the Chief Customer Officer, but sometimes has a slightly broader mandate to manage all business functions touched by revenue generation. Chief Product Officer.

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Drata’s CEO Adam Markowitz on creating a culture of cyber security

Intercom, Inc.

And then, in the 50s, they introduced this new thing, and there was resistance. Evernote’s CTO on Your Biggest Security Worries From 3 to 300 Employees. This is Scale , Intercom’s podcast series on driving business growth through customer relationships. Liam: The whole area is a new space. Caught your interest?

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