When tasked to write a biographical blog about Mindy Kaling, I jumped at the chance. I have long admired her as an actress, producer, director, and best-selling author. What I find compelling about Mindy is her longtime groundbreaking presence as an advocate for women, diversity, and inclusion in Hollywood. I began by researching her life
Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, HBO Max, Disney+. The recent proliferation of streaming services has led to an abundance of original content. Here at Gainsight, we’ve been inspired by the variety of exclusive content found across these platforms. The more we thought about it, the more we saw parallels between some of our favorite movies and
10 strategies for developing a mindset to help you better navigate challenging customer interactions. If you’re being honest with yourself, you know that at one point in time you’ve been that customer. You know – the tough customer who didn’t hold back on the choice language and let the person on the other end of
One of the best parts of the Customer Success community is the feeling that we are all in it together as CS evolves. No one is an expert, and everyone must adopt the philosophy of the Beginner’s Mind as we innovate and discover more about our field. Customer Success peers help each other out more
Imagine gathering Customer Success executives together and having them open up about pain points, processes, and the future of CS. Recently, I did, and inevitably, one topic and the incessant accompanying question arose, which is: How do we measure the ROI of our Customer Success team? In a happy hour earlier this month, we dove
Welcome to Change the Game in 5 Minutes Series. Our CEO, Nick Mehta, recently spent time with Sabina Pons, Global Vice President of Customer Success and Support at Mavenlink. She and her team created the ultimate customer journey. With clear insight into post-sale and implementation revenue and growth, they have a long-term vision of renewal
By Nick Mehta – CEO, Gainsight [Special thanks to Ajay Agarwal at Bain Capital Ventures, Nakul Mandan from Audacious Ventures, Roger Lee from Battery Ventures, Jeff Lieberman from Insight Venture Partners and Byron Deeter from Bessemer Venture Partners for their feedback on this post] It’s an incredible time to be in SaaS. I don’t know
This month Gainsight launched NDR tv with our first guest, Dave Kellogg. Interestingly, there were not just the nuggets of wisdom abound, but an atmosphere of a kindred passion for all things CS and the hot topic of net dollar retention (NDR). And as Nick said, “the most important metric in customer success has shifted
During my 5 years at Gainsight, from SDR to Solutions Consultant, a question that would come up regularly from prospects was, “All of this is great, the health scores, CTAs, etc., but how can I bring this all in one place?” I would always respond with, “Well, that’s a great transition to the final area
As the cloud business model continues its relentless ascent to take over all software spending, companies are trying to figure out how to marry the SaaS playbook with all of their traditional go-to-market methods. As such, one of the most popular questions we get in discussions with Customer Success leaders is: “We are getting our