Krish Subramanian

Chargebee · Amsterdam

Co-founder and CEO of Chargebee, built from a Chennai apartment into global subscription billing infrastructure

Why they're worth your time

Because he sells pricing and monetisation software, he thinks out loud about the part of GTM most founders under-engineer: how a pricing model shapes the sales motion, expansion revenue and who you can afford to sell to. He is also candid about selling from India into Western markets from day one.

Background

Krish Subramanian co-founded Chargebee in Chennai in 2011 with three friends and is its CEO. Chargebee now serves thousands of merchants across more than two hundred countries with subscription billing and monetisation. He is a founding member of SaaSBoomi, India's B2B SaaS founder community, writes on the Chargebee blog and on X, and hosts the Second Acts podcast.

Known for

Pricing Enterprise sales ICP Retention & expansion

Where they're public

Their own channels. Read the work first.

X Website

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