Subscribed Podcast

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Ep #20: Patrick Campbell on SaaS Pricing May 13, 2018

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Patrick Campbell is the CEO of ProfitWell (formerly Price Intelligently), the software for helping subscription companies with their monetization and retention strategies. ProfitWell also provides free turnkey subscription financial metrics for over eight thousand companies. Prior to ProfitWell, Patrick lead Strategic Initiatives for Boston based Gemvara and was an Economist at Google and the US Intelligence community.

We talk to Patrick about the importance of value metrics, the role of monetization as a growth lever, and the complexities of subscription pricing and packaging.

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Ep#19: Nikhil Basu Trivedi on D2C Subscription Businesses Dec 11, 2017

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Nikhil Basu Trivedi is Partner at Shasta Ventures, leading investments in a variety of consumer-oriented businesses. He also has a strong interest in industries that have yet to be transformed for the better by mobile and web technology, including healthcare, education, energy, and the life sciences. Nikhil has co-sponsored many of Shasta's investments since joining the team in 2012. In 2015, he was named to Forbes Magazine's 30 Under 30 list for Venture Capital.

We talk to Nikhil about D2C business trends, the success of subscription business models, and metrics that matter to investors.

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Ep #18: Mark Settle and the "Truth from the Trenches" Nov 22, 2017

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Mark Settle is a seven-time CIO with broad business experience in information services, enterprise software, consumer products, high tech distribution, financial services, and oil & gas. He has received multiple industry awards and is a three-time CIO 100 honoree. He's currently the CIO of Okta. Settle sits on the advisory boards of several Silicon Valley venture capital firms and pioneered the adoption of service management and cloud computing technologies within several large enterprises. He is the author of Truth from the Trenches: A Practical Guide to the Art of IT Management. Settle received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from MIT and a PhD from Brown University. He is a former Air Force officer and NASA Program Scientist.

We talk to Settle on the evolving role of the CIO, business transformation challenges, and lessons learned from being the "the most experienced CIO in the world."

For previous episodes and more on the Subscription Economy, head to www.zuora.com/podcast

Ep #17: Magdalena Yesil Sep 07, 2017

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Magdalena Yesil is the founder of Broadway Angels and the founding board member and first investor in Salesforce. She also recently joined the Zuora board of directors. Magdalena has been active in Silicon Valley for three decades. Most recently, she spent eight years as a general partner at the venture capital firm US Venture Partners (USVP), making investments in a broad spectrum of technology startups. She has been an early investor in over 30 companies. Prior to her investing career, Magdalena was a serial entrepreneur, founding two successful electronic commerce companies, CyberCash and MarketPay. She has a book coming out this October – Power Up: How Smart Women Win in the New Economy

We talk to Magdalena about the early days of the internet, investing in Salesforce, diversity in tech, and the future of the Subscription Economy.