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Nick Mehta

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
231 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Was Selling Majority to Vista The Right Move? Gainsight Customer Success Platform Hits $100m ARR, 1,000 Customers

Awesome to be here, Nathan.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Was Selling Majority to Vista The Right Move? Gainsight Customer Success Platform Hits $100m ARR, 1,000 Customers

Thanks so much.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Was Selling Majority to Vista The Right Move? Gainsight Customer Success Platform Hits $100m ARR, 1,000 Customers

He's doing okay in the preseason, surprisingly, so I don't know.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Was Selling Majority to Vista The Right Move? Gainsight Customer Success Platform Hits $100m ARR, 1,000 Customers

But yeah, he seems like you can't count on him, so we'll see.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Was Selling Majority to Vista The Right Move? Gainsight Customer Success Platform Hits $100m ARR, 1,000 Customers

Totally.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Was Selling Majority to Vista The Right Move? Gainsight Customer Success Platform Hits $100m ARR, 1,000 Customers

I think a lot of people go through this, Nathan.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Was Selling Majority to Vista The Right Move? Gainsight Customer Success Platform Hits $100m ARR, 1,000 Customers

You've seen this from some other companies you've covered, where you start out solving a point problem, and then you're like, there's a much bigger problem to solve.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Was Selling Majority to Vista The Right Move? Gainsight Customer Success Platform Hits $100m ARR, 1,000 Customers

When we started out with Gainsight, the point problem was there's a new role in companies called the CSM.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Was Selling Majority to Vista The Right Move? Gainsight Customer Success Platform Hits $100m ARR, 1,000 Customers

And they need to figure out which customers to reach out to, how to effectively manage them, identify risk.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Was Selling Majority to Vista The Right Move? Gainsight Customer Success Platform Hits $100m ARR, 1,000 Customers

And we still do that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Was Selling Majority to Vista The Right Move? Gainsight Customer Success Platform Hits $100m ARR, 1,000 Customers

We have a lot more to do there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Was Selling Majority to Vista The Right Move? Gainsight Customer Success Platform Hits $100m ARR, 1,000 Customers

But why do people have CSM teams?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Was Selling Majority to Vista The Right Move? Gainsight Customer Success Platform Hits $100m ARR, 1,000 Customers

They have CSM teams to improve net retention in their company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Was Selling Majority to Vista The Right Move? Gainsight Customer Success Platform Hits $100m ARR, 1,000 Customers

They want to keep their customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Was Selling Majority to Vista The Right Move? Gainsight Customer Success Platform Hits $100m ARR, 1,000 Customers

They want to get them to spend more money.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Was Selling Majority to Vista The Right Move? Gainsight Customer Success Platform Hits $100m ARR, 1,000 Customers

They want them to be bigger advocates.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Was Selling Majority to Vista The Right Move? Gainsight Customer Success Platform Hits $100m ARR, 1,000 Customers

That's net retention.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Was Selling Majority to Vista The Right Move? Gainsight Customer Success Platform Hits $100m ARR, 1,000 Customers

The number one valuation driver in SaaS is net retention.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Was Selling Majority to Vista The Right Move? Gainsight Customer Success Platform Hits $100m ARR, 1,000 Customers

And we want to be the company to help businesses improve net retention.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Was Selling Majority to Vista The Right Move? Gainsight Customer Success Platform Hits $100m ARR, 1,000 Customers

Now, to do that, it's not just about the CSM team.

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