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Gainsight: Leading by Example in Customer Success
Gainsight: Leading by Example in Customer Success
This case describes the evolution of the customer success function through the rise of Gainsight. It discusses the responsibilities of the customer success function, measuring and compensating customer success teams, and the return on investment for adding a customer success organization. It also describes some of the different forms customer success can take across firms.
Learning Objective
Learning goals include understanding what the customer success function is, how the customer success function has evolved over time, how to measure and compensate customer success teams, and how businesses think about calculating the return on a customer success function.