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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.
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Signup to Generate a PitchSecond 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.
Second Acts with Krish Subramanian is hosted by Chargebee. The show has published 22 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Notion co-founder on malleable software, monetizing agentic work, reinvention, more | Akshay Kothari" (20 May 2026, 44 minutes), "Miro CEO on reaching 100m users + 250k orgs, permission to win, hybrid pricing, more | Andrey Khusid" (30 January 2026, 68 minutes), and "Pendo CEO on category creation, differentiated platforms, pricing MAUs, and more | Todd Olson" (18 December 2025, 49 minutes).
Second Acts with Krish Subramanian publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 56 minutes across 22 episodes.
Booking probability for Second Acts with Krish Subramanian is 28%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Second Acts with Krish Subramanian requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Second Acts with Krish Subramanian's contact route on record: public web form.
The strongest fits for Second Acts with Krish Subramanian are IT Services & Software Development and Business & Management Consulting. Second Acts with Krish Subramanian has a business audience.
Chargebee hosts Second Acts with Krish Subramanian, a business podcast with 22 episodes published.
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Episode #21
<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...
Episode #20
<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...
Episode #19
<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...
Episode #18
<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...
<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...
Episode #16
<p>In this episode of Second Acts, Krish is joined by Theory Ventures founder and General Partner, Tomasz Tunguz.</p><p>Tomasz talks about: the three infinite learning curves that originally drew him into venture, the...
<p>In this episode of Second Acts, Krish is joined by Reforge’s founder and CEO, Brian Balfour.</p><p>Brian dives into: early years of Reforge’s breakout—“the strongest PMF I’d ever felt”—education business, what led to...
Episode #14
<p>In this episode of Second Acts, Krish is joined by Optimizely’s CEO, Alex Atzberger.</p><p>Alex shares notes on: why deeply integrated suites win in enterprise (and will continue to do so with AI), scaling Optimizely...
Episode #13
<p>In this episode of Second Acts, Krish is joined by Dirk Hoerig, founder of commercetools.</p><p>Dirk reflects on: coining “headless commerce” and the architectural decisions that let them stay ahead of wave after...
Episode #12
<p>In this episode of Second Acts, Krish interviews TigerEye’s (previously PlanGrid’s) co-founder and CEO, Tracy Young. </p><p>Tracy talks about: her big insights from scaling one of the most formative vertical SaaS...
Episode #11
<p>In this episode of Second Acts (a first for season two; welcome back!), the table turns as Krish is interviewed by Chargebee’s CMO, Guy Marion. </p><p>They talk about: Chargebee’s founding theses, strengths, and...
Episode #10
<p>In this episode of Second Acts, Krish is joined by Guru’s co-founder and CEO, Rick Nucci.</p><p>Rick recounts how they rediscovered product-market fit at his previous startup, Boomi (the first iPaaS that foresaw...
Episode #9
<p>In this episode of Second Acts, Krish speaks with Copado’s CEO, Ted Elliott. </p><p>Ted shares (with refreshing wit and candor): the pivots that defined Jobscience (the previous business he helmed for 18 years), a...
Episode #8
<p>In this episode of Second Acts, Krish is joined by Jellyfish’s co-founder and CEO, Andrew Lau. </p><p>Andrew begins the conversation with a modest admission: "Part of this is the entrepreneurial journey, probably a...
Episode #7
<p>In this episode of Second Acts, Krish is joined by Crossbeam’s co-founder and CEO, Bob Moore. Bob traces a captivating line of inflection points across the three different SaaS startups (RJMetrics; acquired by...
<p>In this episode of Second Acts, Krish is joined by DataSnipper’s co-founder, Jonas Ruyter, and their CEO, Vidya Peters. They shed introspective light on how they thoughtfully underwent (what often is) among the most...
Episode #5
<p>In this Second Acts episode, WP Engine’s (previously: ITWatchDogs’ and SmartBear’s) founder, Jason Cohen joins Krish to discuss: how predictability becomes required to withstand the pressures of scale, how Jason has...
Episode #4
<p>In this Second Acts episode, Krish speaks with Lithic’s co-founder and CEO, Bo Jiang; who breaks down how Lithic (a fast-scaling, B2B infrastructure play in the card issuing space) came about as a compelling second...
<p>In this Second Acts episode, Krish speaks with The New Normal Fund’s founder and GP, Allison Pickens; who draws on her time as the former COO of Gainsight and her work with several remarkable (pre-seed to pre-IPO)...
<p>In this Second Acts episode, Krish is joined by Wistia’s co-founders, Brendan Schwartz and Chris Savage, as they thoughtfully recount lessons from a path-altering decision (buying out their investors) in Wistia’s...
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