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John Gleeson is the Managing Partner of Success VP, a pre-seed and seed-stage focused fund that invests and supports founders with their post sales journey. John is a leader within the post-sales world. He served as the Vice President of Customer Success at Motive Inc. (Series F) where for over five years he led his team through incredible hyper-growth, from less than $1 Million in ARR to over $300 Million, serving over 130,000 customers, supporting a team of 150 and creating nearly 3 Billion in Enterprise Value. Prior to Motive, John was the first hire at Affinio where he built the first Sales function before leading Customer Success.
Episode Notes:
How does John define Customer Success (2:22) Unraveling the path from Head of Customer Success to VP of Customer Success (5:30) Scaling Customer Success within a hyper-growth startup: From $1M to over $300M (14:44) Measuring the impact of Customer Success (23:03) Insider Insights: Best Practices from John's journey in scaling Customer Success (30:14) Examining Post-Sales trends through the lens of an venture capitalist (35:00) -
Hope Blaythorne, the former Head of Customer Success at Hashicorp. Hope is widely acknowledged as a distinguished figure in the industry, boasting a remarkable track record of over 25 years. Throughout her career, she has held prominent positions in sales and customer success at esteemed companies like Oracle, IBM, and Red Hat.
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How does Hope define customer success (1:30) What is Digital Touch in the context of customer success (3:33) Examples of companies effectively utilizing Digital Touch (5:58) The significance of CS ops in implementing Digital Touch (13:43) Why are organizations leaning towards pooled CS teams (18:20) -
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