customer success manager

also referred to as: csm · csms · customer success managers

9 statements across 8 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Jul 5, 2020 by Craig Walker · across every show →

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Jul 5, 2020
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Walker: Dialpad gives AEs expansion credit for six months before CSM handover
“And we do give our AE's credit for the first six months expansion. ... CSMs are involved at that point, but six months after then they take over.”
Craig Walker Jul 5, 2020 ▶ 14:38 Dialpad CEO "We'll break $100m in 2020, comfortable burning $1m/mo, $45m in bank"
Aug 20, 2020 neutral
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HackerEarth enterprise CSMs handle 50-60 accounts, SMB handles up to 100
“Typically accounts owned by an enterprise, CSM is in the range of 50 to 60, while an SMB account a manager could actually own up to a hundred accounts.”
Sachin Gupta Aug 20, 2020 ▶ 12:59 HackerEarth 4.5m Developer Community Breaks $5m Run Rate, 100% Net Retention
Aug 20, 2020 negative
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Gupta: Tying CSMs to revenue expansion incentivizes ignoring account churn
“I personally believe that CSM should be responsible for driving product adoption, building a customer champion, and making a customer responsible. Expansion will happen naturally if all those three things are happening. Now, what happens is if you give your CS…”
Sachin Gupta Aug 20, 2020 ▶ 13:48 HackerEarth 4.5m Developer Community Breaks $5m Run Rate, 100% Net Retention
Sep 1, 2020
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Bendov: Gong CSMs Do Not Carry Sales Quotas to Avoid Pressuring Customers
“They're not sales people. They want to make sure the customer is making, like, the best possible service. They kind of do have, like, NPS and renewal rate which kind of proxy, but it's a very small portion of their compensation, so they don't try to pressure t…”
Amit Bendov Sep 1, 2020 ▶ 21:59 Gong.io Adds $1.5B To Valuation, 1500 Customers, $45m+ in Revenue for Revenue Intelligence Sales Tool
May 21, 2021
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Yoon: Dedicated SaaS customer support calls require roughly $700 monthly ARPU
“What's the minimum number where having like, say like a dedicated CSM or kind of Salesforce makes sense where you're having calls. And that's like 700.”
Kevin Yoon May 21, 2021 ▶ 9:22 Referral Program Software Growsurf Bootstrapped to $26k/mo in Revenue, Pricing Page Secrets
Feb 25, 2022 neutral
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SEON requires CSMs to reach 2% monthly expansion for commission
“Yeah net expansion yeah, should be at least two percent uplift from previous month the space, and then they earn Also the same amount of commission based on that, but yeah, it's a new scheme.”
Thomas Kedar Feb 25, 2022 ▶ 11:57 Popular Identity Verification Tool Raising $60m on $400m Now with $10m in Revenue
Mar 22, 2022 positive
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Bendov: Gong CSMs are measured on NPS rather than sales quotas
“The CSMs are measured mostly on NPS. They're not sales people. They want to make sure the customer has the best possible service. They kind of do have like NPS and renewal rate, which is kind of proxy, but it's a very small A portion of their compensation, so …”
Amit Bendov Mar 22, 2022 ▶ 21:50 Look Back: Is Gong looking to IPO?
May 10, 2022 neutral
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Gorniak: Threekit does not evaluate CSMs on revenue targets
“We do have a target, but not a revenue target. Like they're not gold on making more money. They're gold on making the customer happy.”
Matt Gorniak May 10, 2022 ▶ 18:25 How ThreeKit Plans to Grow into their $300m+ Valuation, Break $10m Revenue This Year
Jul 2, 2024 neutral
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Chellappa ran sales, marketing, and implementation up to $1.5M ARR
“I was doing all the sales. I was doing marketing. I was doing implementation of the product. I was doing a lot of those things until we got to about one and a half million or thereabout in revenue. That's when we hired our first CSM. To help implement so that …”
Sri Chellappa Jul 2, 2024 ▶ 1:56 $6m ARR CEO Shares When to Hire First AE, CSM, and VP
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