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🗓️ 11 October 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Eoghan McCabe is the Co-Founder and CEO @ Intercom, one of the largest private software companies in the valley with hundreds of millions in revenue and thousands of customers. To date, Eoghan has raised over $238M from Index, Kleiner Perkins, ICONIQ, GV, Bessemer and more incredible firms. Intercom’s goal is to reinvent customer service with AI agents replacing human agents over the next 10 years.
10 Questions with One of the Largest Private Company CEO’s:
AI Investing: Why will most AI investments not do better than the S&P 500?
Building SaaS Tools with AI: Why is it crazy for companies to follow Klarna and use AI to build their own tools?
Going Public: Why is Bill Gurley wrong that more later stage companies should go public? Why did Intercom shelve plans to go public in 2022?
Early-Stage is F*******: Why is the early-stage venture ecosystem as an asset class f******?
Founder Mode: Why does Eoghan believe all of the best founders are unbalanced? What is the difference between Founder vs Manager mode?
Political Voice: Why did Eoghan decide he had to voice his political opinions now?
The Danger of Harris: Why does Eoghan believe a Harris administration would rob the US of immense freedom, democracy and civil liberty?
Why Vote Trump: Why does Eoghan believe that Trump will regain immense freedom for the sovereign individual?
Freedom of Speech: How does Eoghan determine right vs wrong when freedom of speech leads to harm and injustice?
Middle East and Nuclear War: Why does Eoghan believe that nuclear war is much closer than we think? Will we see the Middle East descend into war?
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0:00.0 | Most VC money is going to support a lot of excitement around AI and actually not do better than the S&P 500. |
0:06.7 | I think that building your own AI agent platforms is going to be as smart as in the previous generation building your own SaaS workflow. |
0:15.2 | The terrible fucking idea. I'm a big believer in individual liberty and peace or in a time where both of those are being |
0:22.3 | threatened. |
0:23.3 | It's crystal clear that Trump and fans are the people who are promoting the most personal |
0:27.3 | liberties and freedoms. |
0:28.6 | I think it's deeply evil to decide what can or cannot be spoken about. |
0:33.2 | It's really dangerous. |
0:34.6 | Governments become insanely and dangerously powerful when their citizens cannot say |
0:39.9 | what they believe is true or not. I mean, this show has more peri-peri sauce than Anando's extra hot |
0:45.8 | chicken. This is one of the spiciest shows we've done in a while. Also, such range of discussion |
0:50.5 | for a short show. AI, politics, freedom of speech, Owen McCabe, co-founder at Intercom, |
0:55.9 | is incredible here. If you want to watch the full episode, you can find it on YouTube by searching |
1:00.1 | for 20VC. That's 20VC. Before we begin, I want to share something interesting about the private market. |
1:07.0 | There are many ways to buy and sell private stock today. But Hive is the only platform that |
1:11.7 | provides a one-stop liquidity solution for private companies and their shareholders. It not only |
1:16.7 | provides access to a deep pool of investors, but also allows companies and boards to control key |
1:23.2 | elements like buyer approvals, seller eligibility, and even pricing, offering liquidity on their |
1:29.5 | own terms. What's more, Hive's comprehensive transaction execution service and centralized |
1:35.1 | transaction tracking allows companies to stay on top of all past, pending and upcoming transfer |
1:41.2 | requests so easily and at no cost. |
1:44.5 | Visit hive.com, that's H-I-I-V-E with two eyes, |
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