Second Acts with Krish Subramanian

Second Acts chronicles the risky, exacting, and ultimately foundational shifts that propel SaaS businesses forward. Whether it’s expanding into new geos/segments/verticals, releasing adjacent product lines, devising the next set of GTM/monetization models and org structures, scaling up requires pursuing these (often tricky) transformations (read: Second Acts) all at once. In this second season, tune in every month as Chargebee’s co-founder and CEO, Krish Subramanian, sits down with senior founders and CXOs to capture the urgent, never-before-seen second acts that AI’s all-out enterprise embrace is bringing about.

Second Acts with Krish Subramanian is a business podcast hosted by Chargebee, with 22 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Chargebee hosts Second Acts with Krish Subramanian, a business show with 22 episodes published.

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  Episode #21

  Notion co-founder on malleable software, monetizing agentic work, reinvention, more | Akshay Kothari

  May 20, 202644 minS2

  <p>In this episode of Second Acts, Krish is joined by Akshay Kothari, co-founder at Notion. </p><p>Akshay shares notes on: The founding insight behind his first startup, Pulse (acq. by LinkedIn in 2013) and how that led him to Notion, the now-storied Kyoto reset that transformed a flailing, early version of the product, how the idea of building “malleable software” can be traced back to the origins of modern computing, what’s informing Notion’s agent-native second act and its multi-layered moat, learning to price work/intelligence over seats/platforms, how Notion's Custom Agents made usage-based monetization an incontestable choice...

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  Episode #20

  Miro CEO on reaching 100m users + 250k orgs, permission to win, hybrid pricing, more | Andrey Khusid

  Jan 30, 20261h 8mS2

  <p>In this episode of Second Acts, Krish is joined by Andrey Khusid, founder and CEO at Miro.</p><p>Andrey shares notes on: Miro's AI-native second act and how it's enabling them to expand horizontally and vertically at once while serving 100m users and most of the Fortune 500, the inputs that help Andrey constantly assess and intuit market fit, Miro's portfolio of bets approach, what strategic enterprise AI deployments actually demand, why monetization has long been a cross-functional team effort at Miro and why Andrey has always been part of it, how Miro is evolving beyond per-seat pricing, why...

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  Episode #19

  Pendo CEO on category creation, differentiated platforms, pricing MAUs, and more | Todd Olson

  Dec 18, 202549 minS2

  <p>In this episode of Second Acts, Krish is joined by Todd Olson, CEO and Founder of Pendo.</p><p>Todd talks about: why investors pushed him to sell to marketers in 2013 but he stubbornly built for product managers instead (a persona without a proven budget line), the decade-long journey of creating a new category from scratch, why raising minimum price from $99/m to $1,500/m overnight accelerated their growth, the platform vision that's been core to Pendo since 2014 and Todd’s "innovate at the intersections" philosophy, how AI is fundamentally reshaping product analytics (as "the incremental value of a click" ha...

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  Episode #18

  v0’s GM on powering the next 100m builders, monetizing infra products, and more | Zeb Hermann

  Nov 13, 202550 minS2

  <p>In this episode of Second Acts, Krish is joined by Zeb Hermann, General Manager of v0 at Vercel.</p><p>Zeb unpacks: the biggest lessons from his time at Segment and Sequoia Capital, why he joined Vercel (makers of Next.js and AI SDK) to lead initiatives (such as pricing and packaging) with “asymmetric upside,” v0’s origins (as Vercel’s second act) and how it has exploded to reach millions of users in the most intensely competitive competitive of AI categories, how the v0 team is structured as customer zero within Vercel, why it takes Caltech PHDs to scale th...

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  Episode #17

  Docebo CEO on steady growth, systems of intelligence, pricing's value chain, and more | Alessio Artuffo

  Oct 9, 202558 minS2

  <p>In this episode of Second Acts, Krish is joined by Docebo’s (NASDAQ: DCBO) CEO, Alessio Artuffo.</p><p>Alessio talks about: Docebo’s many second acts from the early days of bootstrapping to their recent AI-native reinvention, what they have learned about sustaining balanced growth as a public SaaS company, how “clear, unarguable” enterprise value (not AI hype) drives their product and monetization decisions, the internal idea-to-execution value chain of pricing ownership, why focus (not TAM) is the big constraint in horizontal markets, a Lencioni classic he keeps going back to, and more. </p><p>— </p><p>Chapters:</p><p>(00:0...

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