Why Customer Success must become Customer Growth
From Breakthrough SaaS Growth with The Jasons by Jason Whitehead & Jason Noble
June 7, 2026 · 33 min · Episode 119
About this episode
The episode discusses the evolution of Customer Success into Customer Growth in the SaaS industry and its implications for companies.
Customer Success was built for a different phase of SaaS. It helped companies improve adoption, protect renewals and support customers after the sale. But the market has changed. Budgets are tighter. CFO scrutiny is higher. Buyers expect clearer ROI. SaaS companies can no longer rely on adoption activity and relationship management as proof of value. In this episode of Breakthrough SaaS Growth, Jason Whitehead and Jason Noble explore whether Customer Success is evolving into something bigger: Customer Growth. We discuss what this shift really means for SaaS companies, including how teams move from activity-based customer relationships to outcome-driven value creation, from defending renewals to driving expansion and from support-style engagement to a commercially confident growth engine. We cover: Why the original Customer Success model is under pressure How the SaaS subscription model changed vendor accountability Why adoption alone is no longer enough How Customer Success can drive retention, expansion and NRR Why metrics, incentives and ownership need to evolve How Sales, CS, Product and Finance need to align around customer value The breakthrough challenge: If your sales team…
People in this episode
Hosts: Jason Whitehead, Jason Noble
Topics covered
- Customer Success
- Customer Growth
- SaaS
- Retention
- Expansion
- Value Creation
Keywords
- Customer Success
- Customer Growth
- SaaS
- Retention
- Expansion
- ROI
- Metrics
- Value Creation
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