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What's the ROI of your mom?

ProfitWell

And in this article he explains why, and proposes a different approach to thinking about the optimal CSM headcount to help you build a more effective customer success organization. On a global scale, on average, product marketers with strong leadership support earn almost $13k more a year than those without. Here are a few teasers.

Scale 43
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SaaStr Podcast #403 with Loom VP of Sales Sam Taylor

SaaStr

Are marketing becoming the new sales team with their content being used more and more in the sales funnel? Sam Taylor: On my first leadership role, I was the first enterprise sales rep, a manager of mid-market team. Bret was formerly the CTO at Facebook. And so I was their first sales leadership hire.

Scale 174
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Three million downloads and counting: Inside Intercom reaches a podcasting milestone

Intercom, Inc.

For Slack, that was clearly the engineering and dev communities, who love new tools. They love new ways of working and were happy to bring Slack into their functional teams and say, “Let’s experiment with this new way of working.” And it was very successful. Product can do a huge amount there.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Lucidchart and Wrike — February 28, 2020

SaaStr

Karl has been in every interview for every new hire for the first 6 years of the business, why? He had worked as a CTO at a startup when he dropped out of school. No one, I think,, is fond of showing up one day and being told that they have a new boss if they haven’t been engaged in that process. What works?

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Shape Up Your Agile

Crafty CTO

My friends at the Chicago CTO Group are very smart people, and everyone I’ve spent time with is practicing some form of agile effectively. And if it’s not that interesting—maybe a bug that customers are running into from time to time—it’ll come back to your attention when a customer complains again or a new customer hits it.