Interviews & Case Studies With Top Pricing Leaders

The remainder of this book has a treasure trove of information hidden within interviews with the top revenue and pricing leaders in the Valley. The 2nd edition now has even more case studies from Jan and Ajit. The following table provides an easy reference on the areas covered in the interviews so that these can be read in the context of the theoretical information provided earlier in the book. 

# Interviewee Company Discussed Main Topic of Discussion
1 Kevin Paiser
Head of Sales at Nosto
Nosto Evolution of Nosto’s pricing approach changed with the growth of the company.
2 Johnny Cheng
Sr Director of Product Marketing, Coupa Software
Gainsight Revamping Pricing and Packaging in Mid-market and Enterprise Segments
3 Pranav Kashyap
Head of Pricing, Mixpanel
Mixpanel Changing the key pricing metric to align with customer value
4 Natalie Louie
Sr Director of Product Marketing, Zuora
Oracle Designing pricing when parts of the product has high hard costs
5 Rajeev Venkatraman
VP of Pricing, Verint
Verint Moving from perpetual licensing to subscription model
6 Joshua Bloom
Managing Partner, Simon Kucher Partners
Simon Kucher Partners General interview on pricing and packaging learnings
7 Mehul Saini, Principal Product Marketing Manager, Rubrik Rubrik Moving from perpetual licensing to subscription model
8 Jan Pasternak
Head of Pricing, Zoom
Generalized General interview on pricing and packaging learnings
9 Kevin Christian,
Director of Pricing Strategy and Operations, Infoblox
Generalized Pricing & Packaging for IT Infrastructure & Ops Products
10 Ajit Ghuman Narvar Rationalizing Pricing & Packaging
11 Jan Pasternak DocuSign Transformation from Usage-based to Feature-based Pricing
12 Jan Pasternak Zoom Pricing Structure Complexity
13 Jan Pasternak Pushpay SaaS Functionality Commoditization
14 Scott Williamson
Former CPO at GitLab (podcast summary)
GitLab PLG Pricing Revamp
15 Ariel Assaraf
CEO Coralogix (podcast summary)
Coralogix Building Product For Total Cost of Ownership