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Reddit’s Nick Caldwell on engineering leadership

Intercom, Inc.

He had to quickly determine which team members displayed a potential for leadership and teach them the fundamentals of management so they could make new hires and scale – without ruining the culture. I hosted Nick on the podcast, where we discussed the differences between management and leadership, fostering diversity in tech, and more.

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10 Sales Interview Questions to Hire the Perfect Sales Team

Sales Hacker

By mastering your sales interview questions. As a longtime recruiting leader, I’ve worked with countless hiring managers looking to fill sales roles , and I’ve had a firsthand look at their interview process. 6 Sales Interview Questions to Find the Best Talent. How do you make sure your potential new hires have the right skills?

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Assembling A World-Class Customer Success Organization: An Interview With Stephen Fulkerson, TSIA’s VP Customer Success Research

Valuize Consulting

In the subscription economy, there’s no debate about whether or not to invest in Customer Success (CS); 70% of rapidly growing businesses say that Customer Success is extremely important ( Hubspot , 2017). Level Up Your Customer Success Organization. Lastly, you should carefully consider your software capabilities.

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Uniting Recurring Revenue Organizations Around Success Metrics: An Interview With Kevin Meeks

Valuize Consulting

The subscription model has exploded in the last decade and fundamentally changed how software companies operate, measure success metrics and engage with customers. Q: If you needed to prove the ROI of Customer Success to a C-Suite Leadership team, how would you approach that conversation?

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Why We Created a Slack Community for SaaS and Software Professionals

FastSpring

This mission of increasing the personalness of FastSpring’s relationship with businesses (and of course, the people who found or work for them) is also part of why we do things like interview our members. Strengthening Customer Relationships. The FastSpring-specific channel is open to all members. And if you have no interest in FastSpring?

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45 – Technical leadership (from a past CTO, CEO, Director of Engineering, and Coder), with Cynthia Del’Aria

Natalia Luneva

Today I interview Cynthia Del’Aria and we talk about leadership in the SaaS world. Cynthia helps business owners turn their idea for an app, custom software, subscription product, or website into higher profit with higher margins. The importance of leadership for SaaS companies.

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What is a chief customer officer?

ChurnZero

They often provide unifying leadership to different areas of your business that are involved in customer contact. It’s not just about making the first sale and calling it a day; it’s about developing relationships that promote subscription renewals and upgrades. The ability to offer leadership to all customer-facing teams.