[TL;DR: We’re thrilled to announce a partnership with Vista Equity Partners, valuing Gainsight as a “unicorn,” to take the Customer Success movement to new heights. And I’m personally all in as CEO for this next phase. If you want to read the boring version of this story, see our press release here. If you want

As the Customer Success function matures, it’s increasingly clear that Customer Success Operations (CS Ops) plays a critical role in driving effectiveness and efficiency just as Sales Ops does for the Sales function.  We’re interviewing a few rockstar CS Ops leaders to showcase how leading organizations drive growth and efficiency across their post-sales teams. Today,

We have almost made it through the challenging year of 2020. With Halloween behind us, it is time to celebrate arguably one of the best holidays—Thanksgiving. The season is upon us to reflect, share gratitude, and enjoy those moments with loved ones in simpler times. Whether you can celebrate with family or sacrificed face-time to

This is part 12 of our 12-part series “This is Product-Led,” inspired by our conference for Gainsight PX users, Pulse for Product. At the dawn of video gaming, California-based Atari was on top. For nearly its entire golden era, the company succeeded with very little intentional marketing.  “They had no sales, no advertising, no marketing,

This is part 11 of our 12-part series “This is Product-Led,” inspired by our conference for Gainsight PX users, Pulse for Product. Today, in our quest to retire every video game reference possible as we explain our retro gaming-themed user summit, Pulse for Product, we have a special treat. It’s actual footage of a customer

This is part 10 of our 12-part series “This is Product-Led,” inspired by our conference for Gainsight PX users, Pulse for Product. Throughout this series, we’ve used retro gaming to explain product-led growth and product analytics. In this post, we stray into the early 2000s to discuss a slightly newer game, Halo: Combat Evolved, because

Everyone understands how critical renewals are to your business. Despite the importance of renewals in business growth, many companies and teams struggle with a few key challenges–lack of visibility into the renewal book of business, siloed data, and disconnected workflows between Sales and CS teams.  Gainsight has a solution that alleviates those pains—Renewal Center. We

This is part 9 of our 12-part series “This is Product-Led,” inspired by our conference for Gainsight PX users, Pulse for Product. We tend to think of businesses as being fairly fixed things, but they change all the time. Consider the dominant player in 1990s video games, Nintendo. We associate it with Super Mario Brothers,

This is part 8 of our 12-part series “This is Product-Led,” inspired by our conference for Gainsight PX users, Pulse for Product. There is a feeling shared by professionals on both customer success and product teams: It is an ambient anxiety that some decision you’ve made could turn out wrong and upset clients. “Sometimes customer

This is part 7 of our 12-part series “This is Product-Led,” inspired by our conference for Gainsight PX users, Pulse for Product. Ask people whether they like video games and you’ll get answers across the board. One of our interviewees, Lauren Stefano, Director of Customer Marketing at Seismic, loves MarioKart. But Eve Alexander, Sr. Director