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Stax Payments Appoints Mark Sundt as Chief Technology Officer

Stax

As CTO, Sundt will accelerate the delivery of new products, features, and functionality that unlock and drive increased value for Stax customers and partners. Early in his career, he worked at Microsoft, advancing in technical and leadership roles over 17 years. To learn more about Stax, visit staxpayments.com.

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SaaStr Enterprise is LIVE! Watch it here

SaaStr

Juggling People, Processes & Priorities: CTO Leadership Lessons from the Front Lines. Customer-First Focus: The Path to Hypergrowth. VP Customer Success & WW Support. The Future of the Customer. Chief Customer Officer. Tarik Faouzi. Rose Nuñez. Channel Management. IBM. [link]. Sarika Khanna.

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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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10 Things That Would Have Helped Me Go From $1m to $10m Faster with Less Stress

SaaStr

Cash was tight and I didn’t know any great VPs of Biz Dev, so between myself and my VPs of Sales, Product and Customer Success, we all jointly managed our key partners. 5/ Moving from CTO-led -> VPE-led dev team. This is pretty well understood today, but was fairly new to me. More here. It always works.

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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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What's the ROI of your mom?

ProfitWell

That’s what David Apple—customer success and sales guru at Notion— is asking. Along with: What’s the ROI of your customer success manager? But we know customer success reduces churn and increases expansion revenue, so CSMs do have a very serious purpose in an organization. Here are a few teasers.

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The Path to the C-Suite: A Guide for Aspiring Customer Success Leaders

SmartKarrot

If you are a customer success leader with the ultimate objective of obtaining a C-level position, this blog is specifically written for you. . As a customer success leader, you have just reached one milestone in your career. The word – C-Suite connotes the highest leadership position in an organization.