First customer success hire, no playbook.
I got my start on the ground floor at SalesRabbit, employee number seven, back when customer success was barely a named thing. I started in support and became the first person there whose whole job was the customer. There was no playbook to copy, so I built the team and the motion from scratch, and I made every mistake there was to make.
And things were not working. We were losing 25% of new customers in the first 90 days while I did everything a customer success person was supposed to do. So I started interviewing our most successful customers, the ones who would stand on stage and say the product changed their business, and asked them how they win. Once I understood that, the whole job changed. I built what I learned into our onboarding, our processes, our tooling.
We brought that 25% down to less than 5%.






