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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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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. This is also one of the least expensive (in terms of hard costs) things you can due to help the company scale in this phase, and beyond. More here.

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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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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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SaaStr Podcast #214: Erica Schultz, CRO @ New Relic on What It Takes To Successfully Scale Into Enterprise

SaaStr

Erica Schultz is Chief Revenue Officer @ New Relic, the company that gives you the real time insights your software driven business needs to innovate faster. Prior to their IPO, New Relic raised over $214m in funding from some of the best in the business including Benchmark, Insight Venture Partners and Blackrock, to name a few.

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Reasons That Make Customer Success a Must to be Represented at C-Suite Level

SmartKarrot

Customer success careers have become the buzzwords in the business environment. The hot topic that is running around in the SaaS industry is the need for customer success to have a seat and a voice at the leadership table. This very reason makes them the most powerful voice of the customer. contact-form-7].