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Three chief customer officer job descriptions we love

ChurnZero

The role of the chief customer officer has become an essential function in subscription-based business models such as software-as-a-service (SaaS), where customer retention is paramount and requires executive-level leadership. SaaS businesses, meanwhile, benefit from predictable streams of recurring revenue.

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From Stealth to Unicorn in 11 Months: Top 5 Lessons Learned with Drata CEO Adam Markowitz and Cowboy Ventures Partner Amanda Robson (Video)

SaaStr

Every successful SaaS business strategy requires a full-potential ambition aimed at sustained profitable growth. Every SaaS company strives to adapt to the emerging changes in the market as soon as possible and achieve sustainable growth. The service you deliver. The strategies you deploy. The marketing tone you use.

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The decade software ate the world

Intercom, Inc.

Apple survived the death of Steve Jobs in October 2011 under the thoughtful stewardship of Tim Cook, and continued to essentially be the iPhone company, while branching into wearables and services. Rise of the cloud and SaaS businesses. Rise of mobile. To give some perspective, there were about 300 million smartphones sold in 2010.

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How to to Build a Worst-Case Scenario Using a SaaS Financial Model

Baremetrics

But based on the number of requests for worst-case scenarios we've gotten from customers in the past two weeks, there's a non-zero chance you are losing sleep over this if you are a SaaS founder. We want to help, and I believe my experience with other SaaS companies may be useful to you as you plan out your company’s new future.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Kustomer, Google Cloud, and Zenoss — August 8, 2019

SaaStr

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Vikas made his way into the world of SaaS and came to be at the rocketship that is Kustomer. * Why does Vikas believe that a wave of SaaS incumbents are about to be displaced or disrupted? Why is it so crucial to invest in enablement in the early days? What is a good payback period? *

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Chargebee and Glassdoor — November 1, 2019

SaaStr

As for Krish, under Krish’s leadership the team has grown to over 300 people and over 5,000 clients making it one of the next generation in truly global SaaS businesses started in India. What is the process to do it efficiently? Loving our podcast content? How does Krish think about purely serving the SMB market?

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Matt Garratt, Trisha Price, David Schmaier, Rob Bernshteyn, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

359: The Secrets to Vertical Growth, What it Really Takes to Build a $1B SaaS Company with Matt Garratt, SVP, Managing Partner @ Salesforce Ventures, Trisha Price, Chief Product Officer @ nCino and David Schmaier, CEO & Founder @ Vlocity. There’s a lot of services. This episode is sponsored by Linode. Actually, two.