Customer Retention

topic on 8 shows · 16 statements across 16 episodes

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16 statements about Customer Retention, every show

Raz: Businesses overspend on rising CAC instead of customer retention
“So many businesses, and Kurt, you know this, so many businesses are focusing on customer acquisition, and costs are through the roof now. I mean, what used to be shooting fish in a barrel, you're now spending 80, 90, a hundred dollars more on customer acquisit…”
Guy Raz Jul 23, 2026 ▶ 22:06 Advice Line with Curt Richardson of OtterBox
20VC Insight
Declining customer retention is far more dangerous than rising CAC
“There are always ways to optimize efficiency on acquisition. There are always new channels, new brand campaigns, new, new growth avenues. But if you don't have a sticky customer and for some reason they're becoming less sticky, your product market fit, your pa…”
Andrew Dudum Apr 4, 2026 ▶ 1:00:04 How Hims & Hers Reached a $4.3BN Market Cap on $2.3BN of Revenue | Andrew Dudum · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
IN DEPTH Insight
Guild: Customer retention is at least 50% emotional rather than purely utilitarian
“I think most people would assume that the utilitarian part of sales, sales, sales is 90 plus percent of the equation of whether they continue to retain and use the product, but I would argue that it's at least 50% emotional, if not more, and 50% sales oriented…”
Adam Guild Mar 27, 2025 ▶ 29:06 Scrappy tactics and a huge post-COVID pivot | Adam Guild (Co-founder and CEO of Owner)
SAASTR Opinion
Mehta: Net Promoter Score is not valuable due to poor response rates
“This is a good metric. It's good to track it. Also, you often don't get good response rates. You also get random people filling it out. So most people don't find this super valuable.”
Nick Mehta Mar 14, 2025 ▶ 11:12 The Top 10 Customer Success Metrics Investors Care About in 2025 with Gainsight CEO Nick Mehta
THE PITCH Prediction Not checkable as stated
Allen: ROWViGOR Targets 85% to 95% Customer Retention
“We want to be north of 85% in terms of keeping people engaged. We think we can do better than that. We're, you know, we're looking at this in the ninety-ninety-five percent range just because of the elements that we talked about.”
Kevin Allen Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 7:53 #18 ROWViGOR
Miljevic: B2B SaaS Faces Severe Shortage of Growth and Analytics Talent
“Every B to B SaaS is like growing rapidly, and there is a very shortage of people with the true experience in terms of the customer acquisition, customer retention, digital analytics, et cetera.”
Jovan Miljevic Aug 7, 2024 ▶ 2:55 Startup Acquisition Stories Podcast With Jovan Meljevic, Founder of BountyHunter
Spera: Broad product focus drives customer acquisition, narrow focus drives retention
“So like narrow and deep is great for customer retention and like giving somebody something they can't live without, but For customer acquisition. I actually like the broad”
Mark Spera Aug 22, 2023 ▶ 5:20 Startup Acquisition Stories with Mark Spera, Co-founder of GrowthBar
TOP FOUNDERS Disclosure
NutriSense customer retention improved from three weeks to eight months
“When we first started, give you context, we first started, people would stay for like three weeks, right? and now we've rated to the point people are staying seven, eight months on average.”
Dan Zavorotny Apr 8, 2023 ▶ 3:50 How He Grew Nutrisense From $12m to $45m ARR Last 12 Months for Health SaaS
Hockenmaier: Growth is far more sensitive to retention than people intuit
“One of the immediate things that you see when you build these is that you're Growth is much more sensitive to customer retention than you can ever intuit. Because there's a lot of interaction between having a healthy retained customer base and everything you c…”
Dan Hockenmaier Oct 9, 2022 ▶ 16:01 Developing a growth model + marketplace growth strategy | Dan Hockenmaier
SAASTR Assertion Not checkable as stated
Gorgias customers with higher CX scores retain roughly 20% better
“They retain about 20% better if they have a higher customer experience score.”
Romain Lapeyre Feb 11, 2022 ▶ 36:24 Acquiring 10,000 SMB Customers Solely from Data with Gorgias' CEO Romain Lapeyre
SAASTR Insight
Lemkin: Accelerating deployment speed is the best cheat to improve SaaS retention
“The other one that I think is almost a call that the people don't talk enough about is as activation rates and time to deployment. Right. And that is one of your best cheats here to improve things is to get your customers to deploy as instantly as possible.”
Jason Lemkin Dec 9, 2021 ▶ 9:56 Ask Me Anything About Customer Success with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin and ChurnZero CEO You Mon Tsang
SAASTR Insight
Startups must solve retention before tackling unit economics
“I believe that we have to tackle our customer retention and success first, then focus on unit economics, not do them at the same time.”
Mark Roberge Nov 19, 2021 ▶ 21:02 The Most Common SaaS Sales Potholes and How to Avoid Them with Mark Roberge, HubSpot's ex-CRO
SAASTR Insight
Kopp: Most SaaS retention issues break down during team handoffs
“I think we're a lot of the retention issues breakdown as in handoffs.”
Tim Kopp Feb 26, 2021 ▶ 8:33 The Playbook to Boosting Net Retention (Quickly) with Terminus's CEO | SaaStr Software Community
SAASTR Insight
Molina: Prioritizing feature adoption over contract sales increases retention
“The less we try to sell contracts or annualized customers for growth and ACV, and instead focus on feature adoption and education, the more we see increased retention.”
Javier Molina Jan 8, 2021 ▶ 22:30 How Sales and Product Really Should Work Together with MongoDB | SaaStr Software Community
SAASTR Disclosure
Hale: Retaining a customer is worth about $420 to SurveyMonkey
“In our business, the value of a retained customer is about 420 bucks.”
Tom Hale Oct 9, 2018 ▶ 19:49 SurveyMonkey's Secrets to Keeping Customers Happy for 20 Years
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ace Metrix achieves 90 percent customer retention and 10 percent churn
“We budget around 85% retention, and so we usually beat that, but it's around 90% retention, 10% churn, and”
Peter Daboll May 7, 2018 ▶ 19:49 1017 The New Nielsen? $12m in Revenue Says, Maybe!

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