Krish Subramanian, CEO, and Co-founder of the leading subscription and billing software called Chargebee, will be sitting in today’s show to answer that question. Chargebee is a global subscription management platform that automates revenue operations of over 4,500 high-growth subscription-based businesses from startups to enterprises across verticals, including SaaS, eCommerce, e-learning, IoT, Publications, and more. Krish and his extremely dynamic mind will be sharing first-hand experiences on how they evolve their go-to-marketing strategy over the years and learn how to straddle sales-led and product-led motions together to drive fast growth. He also talks about the trials and setbacks that they’ve encountered and how they move past those obstacles to generate wins.

Shownotes

[0:59] Krish talks about their journey of reflecting on their mistakes and wins at Chargebee

[1:56] What got them into solving this problem of helping subscription companies understand their business much better?

[7:11] The relevance of understanding your subset of customers 

[8:42] How do they identify their best customers?

[10:36] Getting that value metric and Northstar metric is the biggest revelation for them

[15:33] On building more features for your most successful customers

[{21:21 Why does he think the pricing is so important to be Product-Led as a business?

[25:03] Your end user’s success will eventually become your success 

[30:00] Advantages of having both self-service and pre-sales

[31:15] How did Chargebee evolve the way they structure their teams?

About Krish Subramanian:

Krish Subramanian is the co-founder and CEO of Chargebee, a global leader in subscription billing and revenue management solution for scaling businesses. He is an engineer by profession and a problem solver at heart with over 20 years of experience in the software field. As an ex-consultant, Krish strongly believes that business value is defined by service and experience to the customers and the people. He is referred to as the “nice guy” within the company, the tech community, the media, and his mom. 

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