Krithika Muthukumar

AMA: Stripe Former Marketing Team Lead, Krithika Muthukumar on Solutions and Platform Marketing

December 19 @ 10:00AM PT
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Krithika Muthukumar
Thrive Capital Executive in Residence, Marketing6y
These terms are used so interchangeably these days—some may argue it’s not even worth separating them out. However, the challenges for each are slightly different and a n...
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Krithika Muthukumar
Thrive Capital Executive in Residence, Marketing6y
While you can have really compelling per-product pitches, the real challenge of selling a platform is getting prospects and customers to buy into a vision that unifying t...
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Krithika Muthukumar
Thrive Capital Executive in Residence, Marketing6y
When I was at Stripe, we offered upwards of a dozen products on our platform that go way beyond payments processing—from products for incorporation and billing management...
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How can I start making a change in my organization to influence the roadmap based on consumer insights?
I am at a company where Product builds the roadmap without many insights from Marketing or research.
Krithika Muthukumar
Thrive Capital Executive in Residence, Marketing6y
The only advice I can share is that customer insights (when shared in a clear and actionable way) are very hard to ignore. Survey users, talk to prospects, and bring cust...
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How is your team making the transition from product marketing to solutions marketing?
Do PMMs share both product and solutions marketing responsibilities? Or do PMM now speak more to the users and solution marketers to the buyers?
Krithika Muthukumar
Thrive Capital Executive in Residence, Marketing6y
Solutions can mean very different things for different companies. For example, Salesforce’s Health Cloud is an end-to-end product solution for their healthcare customers—...
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