Great Builders & Success First with Intercom’s Eoghan McCabe | E1962
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 8 June 2024
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Todays show:
Intercom’s Eoghan McCabe joins Jason to discuss: the state of the business at Intercom and his return as CEO (8:33), the future of customer service with AI (24:28), what makes a great manager (59:36), and more!
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Timestamps:
(0:00) Intercom’s Eoghan McCabe joins Jason. (1:50) Family history of the two McCabe’s: Jason and Eoghan. (5:49) The kindness and dedication of Intercom’s co-founder Des Traynor. (8:33) What Intercom is, the state of the business and Eoghan’s return as CEO. (10:41) LinkedIn Ads - Get a $100 LinkedIn ad credit at http://www.linkedin.com/thisweekinstartups (12:37) Looking at overlap and adjacencies when you are building SaaS products. (16:36) The brilliance of the pre-seed pricing model, and is it broken? (19:47) .Tech Domains - Apply for the “Jam with JCal” contest today at https://www.jamwithjcal.tech (22:16) What is next for companies with. SaaS-based pricing. (24:28) The future of customer service and AI. (30:30) Northwest Registered Agent - For just $39 plus state fees, Northwest will handle your complete business identity. Visit https://www.northwestregisteredagent.com/twist today. (36:09) Expectations from AI one year from now. (45:23) Breaking down the negative press and social reaction to the Humane Pin. (52:34) What the world will look like as conversational AI develops. (59:36) What makes a great manager and the “return of the king” at Intercom.
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| 0:00.0 | a smart founder, particularly one who loves to think about technology and landscapes. |
| 0:05.2 | It's just a fun conversation for the right minds. |
| 0:07.4 | I like to imagine the magic and beauty that could come from building the master system. |
| 0:13.0 | Yes. |
| 0:14.0 | Right? The last system to unite them all. |
| 0:16.0 | Of course. |
| 0:17.0 | What's not beautiful and Elkin about that? |
| 0:19.0 | Like the engineering mind loves that. |
| 0:20.0 | Say if you think about the customer world, |
| 0:22.0 | it's like, hey hey it's all one |
| 0:22.7 | customer let's provide one seamless beautiful flow and one incredible |
| 0:26.8 | platform to do all the above and that's actually not wrong thinking if all |
| 0:31.0 | you're doing is having a fun academic tech strategy conversation. |
| 0:36.1 | But if you're interested in the matters of building successful businesses, |
| 0:40.4 | then you run up with really practical matters like positioning like what are people |
| 0:44.8 | gonna know you us if you're trying to be the everything tool is that your pitch it's a hard |
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