Fernando Pizarro

Fernando Pizarro

San Francisco, California, United States
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Seasoned tech executive with a proven track record of scaling startups and driving…

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    San Francisco Bay Area

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    Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Korea

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    San Francisco Bay Area

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    San Francisco, California, United States

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    Singapore

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    Burbank, California, United States

Education

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  • Farm Don't Hunt: The Definitive Guide to Customer Success

    Across entire verticals of the economy the new normal is the recurring revenue business. Charging customers on a monthly basis, firms with this model have to play by an entirely new set of rules, rules which generally favor the customer over the seller. But this new model also opens up fantastic opportunities to provide and extract more value from the relationship as well. To create that value business needs to move away from a hunting mindset to a farming mindset. That change is the new…

    Across entire verticals of the economy the new normal is the recurring revenue business. Charging customers on a monthly basis, firms with this model have to play by an entirely new set of rules, rules which generally favor the customer over the seller. But this new model also opens up fantastic opportunities to provide and extract more value from the relationship as well. To create that value business needs to move away from a hunting mindset to a farming mindset. That change is the new paradigm of Customer Success.

    Many business leaders have heard of Customer Success but few understand what it really means to run their business from the Customer Success standpoint. Even fewer have the experience to build the Customer Success function and optimize its performance.

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  • Blueprints for a SaaS Sales Organization

    Amazon

    Because of their very nature, SaaS companies live and die on revenue growth. And once the service is ready there is a very small window in which to scale. Missing that window is the difference between massive success and mediocrity. With such high stakes, it is crucial to get a sales team and process in place that will scale. Yet most early stage companies build their sales teams by the seat of their pants. This book distills the authors' years of building high performance SaaS teams into a set…

    Because of their very nature, SaaS companies live and die on revenue growth. And once the service is ready there is a very small window in which to scale. Missing that window is the difference between massive success and mediocrity. With such high stakes, it is crucial to get a sales team and process in place that will scale. Yet most early stage companies build their sales teams by the seat of their pants. This book distills the authors' years of building high performance SaaS teams into a set of highly detailed instructions that will allow sales leaders to design, implement and execute all around sales plans.

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  • Survival to Thrival

    Mascot Books

    Until now there has never been a book devoted specifically to enterprise startups. Survival to Thrival fills that gap and provides a framework for thinking about how enterprise startups develop.

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  • English

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  • Spanish

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  • French

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  • Chinese

    Limited working proficiency

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