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Erba: Customer success teams should never carry sales or upsell quotas

Claudio Erba · 1330 This Professor Quit Higher Ed For Learning Management Platform, $24m in ARR · Mar 16, 2019 · at 12:54

Docebo CEO Claudio Erba discusses separating account expansion roles from customer success roles to improve customer adoption and satisfaction.

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“So my lesson is don't let, ah, customer success upsell or having sales quota. They need to focus on making customer happy.”

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Assertion Supported
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Assertion Contradicted
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