Rachel Orston, Chief Customer Officer at Instructure joins the hosts ⁠⁠Jon Johnson⁠⁠ & ⁠⁠Josh Schachter⁠⁠ to discuss her strategic approach to aligning customer success with sales and revenue goals, the challenges of transitioning to a variable compensation model, and how Instructure fosters a culture of connection and collaboration.

Aanal Patel, Senior Director of Customer Success at Crunchbase joins the hosts ⁠⁠⁠⁠Jon Johnson⁠⁠ & ⁠⁠Josh Schachter⁠⁠ to discuss how she and her team navigated a significant downsizing in July 2023, cutting half of their Customer Success team while maintaining top-tier service for their users.

Paul Staelin, CCO at Vercel joins ⁠⁠Josh Schachter⁠⁠, CEO & Founder of UpdateAI to share the strategic structures and priorities behind ensuring stellar customer success and engagement at Vercel, emphasizing the powerful role of AI in forecasting and managing customer support needs.

In this episode, Josh Schachter, Founder & CEO of UpdateAI sits down with Rohan Shah, the Chief Revenue Officer and Co-founder of Extend to discuss the importance of understanding and addressing customer pain points to generate revenue and create value.

Nicole Guarino, the Director of Customer Success at Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT) joins hosts Jon Johnson, Principal CSM (Key Accounts) at UserTesting, and Josh Schachter, Founder & CEO of UpdateAI, to discuss the pivotal roles of sales and customer success in driving business expansion.

Brian Weinberger, CRO at Sisense, joins the host, Josh Schachter, Founder and CEO at UpdateAI, to discuss the gap between sales and post-sales with actionable insights and lessons from his experience. He also shares insights into his dual focus on sales and customer success and emphasizes the importance of creating long-term customer relationships.