As a patient visiting the doctor, have you ever even considered yourself as a customer entitled to a pleasant experience? Well, that's what primary care physician Tom Lee set out to provide when he founded One Medical. But how does one doctor change deeply ingrained inefficiencies in a system as large as the U.S. healthcare system? Tom Lee describes how he thought like a designer—not a doctor—in his quest to rearchitect the patient experience, while current One Medical CEO Amir Dan Rubin describes the integral role technology plays in their plan. Merchant Medicine CEO Tom Charland demystifies ..read more

This season we're coming back with new episodes about eight game-changing companies who saw something missing in the customer experience from a wide range of industries including fintech, healthcare, media, and retail. We’ll explore all of that and more on season two of Repeat Customer, launching Monday, April 8. Repeat Customer is an original podcast from Zendesk. Learn more about the podcast at zendesk.com/repeatcustomer If you're a customer experience professional who wants to appear on the podcast, let us know at zendesk.com/contact ..read more

When SoulCycle co-founder Ruth Zukerman abruptly left her groundbreaking boutique fitness company, the question became whether she could strike gold a second time with a similar spin class concept called Flywheel Sports. But then the challenge doubled when Peloton entered the market with a radical new at-home fitness option. Zukerman describes the early days of boutique fitness and how her continued emphasis on the customer experience paid off for Flywheel. Stacey Artandi Seldin explains the integral role technology played in that success. Matt O'Connor outlines Flywheel's adoption of the late ..read more

When entrepreneur Matt Meeker went shopping for his Great Dane, Hugo, he came away from their local big box pet store less than impressed with the unexciting products. So he decided to start a subscription service for dogs called Bark. But here's the question: when you're selling to furry friends, who is the customer experience aimed at? Humans or dogs? Hernan Giraldo, Bark's VP of Customer Experience Operations, outlines the company's "direct-to-dog" ethos. Expert Phil Chang aka Retail Phil describes the changing relationship between humans and their dogs and how this has revolutionized pet r ..read more

Chip and Joanna Gaines were stars of the hit home makeover TV show Fixer Upper on HGTV, but when they decided to launch a lifestyle brand called Magnolia, they couldn't rely on celebrity status alone. It required a much deeper customer experience. Brand strategist Adam Hanft describes the pitfalls of personality-based brands and how to avoid them. Chris Pullig at Baylor University deconstructs some of the secret sauce behind Magnolia's customer experience. And Magnolia's Director of Guest Services, Sam Goff, takes us into the Waco, Tex. call center where customer service reps connect with Chi ..read more

When SeatGeek set out to disrupt the live event ticket buying experience they went up against dominant players like Ticketmaster and StubHub, and a seemingly endless series of new pain points that kept cropping up around every corner. Would the startup be able to continue adjusting its mobile-first platform at the same time as it fought for space in a tightly controlled industry? SeatGeek co-founder Russell D'Souza and CX Director Joe Gilgoff describe the murky world of ticket buying he sought to improve and the challenges his team had to overcome. Journalists Eric Fisher and Dave Brooks, and ..read more

Eaze totally changed shopping for cannabis in California with its on-demand delivery app. But creating a leading customer experience for something that used to be illegal presents a whole set of challenges most companies will never have to deal with. Starting from the prohibition era and continuing through the medical marijuana years up to the current legalization of adult-use cannabis in California, we see how the retail and delivery industry has changed as the laws have changed. Sheena Shiravi, Director of Consumer Communications, and Mick Frederick, VP of the Customer Experience, both at Ea ..read more

When dating app Hinge shifted its platform to mobile and adopted the swipe feature along with other apps like Tinder, its customer base soared along with its valuation. But as hookup culture gripped the Millennial demographic, founder Justin McLeod realized Hinge's new customer experience was working against its mission of helping people find lasting and fulfilling relationships. Relationship expert Dr. Monica O'Neal outlines the rapidly changing landscape and impact of online dating and mobile dating; Chris Stegner, Founder and CEO of Very Big Things, weighs in with the impact of UX; and Just ..read more

Shake Shack's improbable rise from a hot dog cart in a New York City park to international hamburger chain seems even more unlikely when you consider the guy who started it: Danny Meyer. He's a Michelin-starred restauranteur with a reputation for exceptional customer service. How do you translate that kind of customer experience into fast food? Food journalist Daniela Galarza, Danny Klein of QSR Magazine and Bonnie Riggs, a restaurant industry analyst, describe how Shake Shack and Danny Meyer benefitted from the emergence of a new restaurant category called "fast casual" while another NYC food ..read more

Workplace messaging app Slack provided a much needed centralized solution to teams that had been struggling to stay connected via a convoluted mish mash of email, Skype, text, WhatsApp. But with only eight employees, none of them in marketing or sales, the question became: "how to share this with the world?" Slack's Ali Rayl and Stewart Butterfield explain how various levels of the customer experience were key to its roll out and quick rise. James Allworth of the podcast Exponent explains why it stuck, and Nate Brown of the CX Accelerator breaks down Slack's exemplary customer support. While c ..read more