Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2018

But as Jean and Edmond will now tell you, following years of engineering leadership at Quip, Quora, Medium and more, that simply isn’t the case. They’ve now started a company together, Co Leadership , to help pave the road for engineers to become leaders. Leadership is a mindset, not a title. Louis: How do you define leadership?

Engineering 135

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

When it comes to launching sales teams in hyper-growth startups, few people have walked the walk as much as Maggie Hott. We recently sat down with Maggie to chat about all things sales – from laying down a solid foundation to hiring the right people and, finally, scaling the team into hyper-growth. Look for the team players.

Scale 118

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 118

SaaStr

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Lots of us fantasize about moving upmarket, but are unsure of how to get started, is it just a matter of hiring a team of SDRs and getting them to hit the phones? You don’t want to fall into a trap of building all this custom stuff, I think you guys all know why that’s a bad idea.

Underperforming Technical Team 216

Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring SMB Enterprise 216

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2019

For Rick Nucci, customers will win as long as AI empowers employees to do more of what they do best – that is, dealing empathetically with other humans – while skipping tedious busywork that could be handled just as well by a bot. For us, that first fit was with growing sales teams. Leveraging customer support to drive revenue.

Scale 156

Scale Scaling Underperforming Technical Team AI Search 156

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Which is why customer feedback is a big deal to all of our teams – it’s really integral to what we do and how we build. So if you have ever asked yourself, “How does customer feedback manifest into the features and updates that we build?” In London, we focus on improving our support solutions.

Mobile 212

Mobile Scale Underperforming Technical Team Engineering 212

User Pilot

JANUARY 14, 2024

TL;DR A product manager leads the product management team and is responsible for overseeing all stages of the product development process. They earn more than developers, astronauts, and even attorneys, but less than surgeons. The Director of Product is accountable for multiple product lines and manages product management teams.

VP of Engineering 105

VP of Engineering Management Underperforming Technical Team Compensation 105

Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

And as Travis mentioned, we’ve had lots of great recent guests, Hollie Wegman, CMO at Segment, Adam, the head of developer relations at HashiCorp, G.C. And I joined as a customer support rep. Her team loved working for her. If not, you can send me bad pictures of dachshunds. It’s been a huge success.

CTO Coach 164

CTO Coach Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 164

Totango

MARCH 8, 2022

Getting involved in the best customer success communities can give you access to the resources you need to take your CS team to new levels of performance. Here’s our guide to the top customer success communities in 2022 and what they have to offer. Why Should You Participate in Customer Success Communities? CSM Practice.

Customer Success 122

Customer Success Technical Review Social Media Underperforming Technical Team 122

ChurnZero

AUGUST 14, 2020

We stick to our circle of competence and focus on our area of expertise: Customer Success software. It’s Customer Success for us. And by virtue of that, it’s essential that Customer Success software – like a Customer Success team – plays well with the others it works alongside if the customer is to truly come first.

Payments 87

Payments Payment Solutions Customer Success Software Review 87

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Balance is a key element to navigating a roadmap – between customer-facing and internal, creativity and productivity, between different functions. Getting this right allows your teams to work in lockstep together. But then we brought in four teams – four product managers, four designers, et cetera. Different things change.

VP of Engineering 165

VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Engineering 165

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Balance is a key element to navigating a roadmap – between customer-facing and internal, creativity and productivity, between different functions. Getting this right allows your teams to work in lockstep together. But then we brought in four teams – four product managers, four designers, et cetera. Different things change.

VP of Engineering 165

VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Engineering 165

ChurnZero

AUGUST 11, 2020

Just like in the first wave, your customers’ lives will be turned upside down once the next wave hits. As customers struggle to adjust and manage, they’ll want to know their troubles are being heard by the businesses they interact with. Customer Success teams are in a unique position to listen to their customers’ challenges.

Retention 97

Retention Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 97

BetterCloud

MARCH 17, 2025

Shadow AI, aka the unsanctioned artificial intelligence based applications that are in your tech stack, is often adopted by individual teams or employees for perceived productivity gains. Its important to decide which employees in each department will take ownership and handle the line items for their team and manage everything.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Strategy Marketplace as a Service SaaS 52

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

From there, he helped scale a team of 150 at AdRoll, before becoming CEO and President at TalkIQ, which was acquired by Dialpad. How to develop your frontline managers [15:54]. How to develop your frontline managers. Sam Jacobs: Is there a process or tools or resources you invest in to develop great frontline managers?

AI Search 104

AI Search AI Sales Hiring Scale 104

Incredo

OCTOBER 2, 2019

ur development ?tr?t?g? You already estimate how many new team members you should hire and how much new equipment you should acquire to produce high-quality pieces of video & audio content (not to mention about time, consistency, and having fresh ideas). . support prospects thr?ugh ng customers via email – u??

Scale 131

Scale Scaling SaaS Business 131

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

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.

VP of Engineering 118

VP of Engineering Technical Review Scale Outsourcing Services 118

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

Thought leadership – In many industries, it is useful for people of prominence to share their unique insights on a public platform. Things to consider: Support channels – You will need to consider the different ways you can get in touch with support teams such as live chat, email, and phone.

Payment Methods 145

Payment Methods Technical Review Software Review Systems Review 145

ChurnZero

AUGUST 25, 2021

On top of that, we tend to remember hearing about bad experiences or bad news more so than good experiences or good news. These team members, across various departments, can then utilize the data from the NPS question , which can have a measurable impact across your company. Leadership. They can be convinced.

Scale 98

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CustomerSuccessBox

DECEMBER 12, 2019

As companies have started understanding the benefits of customer success, they have started rushing into the field in the hope of getting quick returns on their investment. First of all customer success is a long term game. While scaling Customer Success, leaders are prone to make some common mistakes based on their presumptions.

Customer Success 59

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 31, 2019

She founded Box’s growth team as well as the product operations team. And before box she ran product and engineering teams building large scale financial platforms for Accenture clients. Ciara : Craig’s designed and led teams at enterprise and consumer companies including Salesforce, eBay, and Google.

Enterprise 162

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Totango

OCTOBER 22, 2020

When a customer is undergoing personnel or organizational adjustments, you need to be prepared for the scenario in which the new leadership is skeptical about your product. This can create friction between your company and the customer, especially if the successor is more familiar with your competitor’s product. .

Management 65

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 10, 2019

They got a bad rep, but they’ve come through the other end, I think. We’re going to invest and invest and invest in the developer side of it and help external developers get value from building an app in the Intercom ecosystem. Where a customer wants to share screens with customer support so they can de-bug their thing.

Scale 143

Scale Banking Technical Review Systems Review 143

SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The struggle to convince your senior leadership team to invest in customer experience has always been there for decades. Many company leaders say that customers come first, but they get more worried about tapping into new markets, sales, talent management, or process optimization when it comes to implementation.

Leadership 21

Leadership Underperforming Technical Team Investment Scale 21

User Pilot

AUGUST 30, 2024

Looking into tools for customer onboarding coordinators? Building strong customer relationships : Establishing rapport with customers, understanding their goals and objectives, and building trust to foster long-term relationships. Book a demo to see it in action!

Onboarding 52

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OpenView Labs

APRIL 25, 2019

As you can imagine, the variance between the makeup of these two teams creates two very different product development experiences. Our self-serve audience needs to be able to grasp the user experience immediately without the support of a sales team, so we need to be very careful about any changes we make.

Management 56

Management Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 56

ChurnZero

AUGUST 25, 2021

On top of that, we tend to remember hearing about bad experiences or bad news more so than good experiences or good news. These team members, across various departments, can then utilize the data from the NPS question, which can have a measurable impact across your company. Leadership. They can be convinced.

Scale 52

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Benchmarks Pricing 52

TriTuns

MARCH 20, 2019

I really like this way of thinking as it’s not just for the short term and the now, it’s about the what (the value) and the who (it allows for customers to include customers as we know them, our employees and team members and our shareholders and investors). Being customer centric is easy to say but hard to do.

Sales Hiring 40

Sales Hiring Leadership Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 40

TriTuns

MARCH 20, 2019

I really like this way of thinking as it’s not just for the short term and the now, it’s about the what (the value) and the who (it allows for customers to include customers as we know them, our employees and team members and our shareholders and investors). Being customer centric is easy to say but hard to do.

Sales Hiring 40

Sales Hiring Leadership Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 40

TriTuns

MARCH 20, 2019

I really like this way of thinking as it’s not just for the short term and the now, it’s about the what (the value) and the who (it allows for customers to include customers as we know them, our employees and team members and our shareholders and investors). Being customer centric is easy to say but hard to do.

Sales Hiring 40

Sales Hiring Leadership Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 40

SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. Many of these are names that you know, and this is actually the largest we’ve seen in history. I think it’s a really staggering stat.

Cloud 113

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Bansal shares this and other key milestones and frameworks for company building in conversation with a16z general partner Peter Levine; enterprise deal team partner Satish Talluri (who was a director of product and growth operations there); and Sonal Chokshi. To be honest, a bottoms-up developer option, great land.

Product Marketing 78

Product Marketing Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 78

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

At Reddit, he led a team of 35 – none of whom knew how to manage other engineers. 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. Short on time?

Leadership 141

Leadership Engineering Part-Time VPE CTO Coach 141

SmartKarrot

MAY 11, 2023

Since conversation intelligence records and tracks every call that comes through, these tracking numbers can be raised to 100% and identify weak aspects of business calls that might have been missed by human analysts. According to Ring Central Blog, it can cost up to $31000 to hire a new customer support agent.

Artificial Intelligence 10

Artificial Intelligence Azure Sales Hiring Machine Learning 10

Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Do you want to grow your SaaS sales team and improve your processes? maintain healthy atmosphere in your Smarketing team, make smart choices regarding your SaaS sales model, strategy, pricing, . Skills for SaaS Sales Team. 6 Essential skills for SaaS inside sales team to boost product’s sales. 3 examples for you).

SaaS Payments 157

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

As you can tell from that list, it was really a team effort, so huge thanks for that. And after a bunch of moving around, I ended up working in product development, actually, for a middleware company, and I did that for four years. ” But really, it was the team side of it. How do you think about that?

Scale 266

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Leadership Scaling 266

User Pilot

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

This guide breaks down a simple, step-by-step RCA process designed for SaaS teams. Reviewing customer support activity. To identify recurring problems in support tickets, chat logs, and email threads. software development) to identify causal factors of a specific problem. Involve cross-functional teams.

Technical Review 59

Technical Review Software Review Churn SaaS 59

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 16, 2019

As our Design Lead Gustavs Cirulis shared recently, the development of the product did not come without its own challenges. There’s a debate about dates : some feel they’re too constraining and that the team should be able to launch the product whenever it’s ready. Few teams put nearly enough effort into onboarding.

Payment Solutions 106

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