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We sit down with The Twenty Minute VC host and venture capitalist Harry Stebbings to chat about getting started on a new project, creating content, and the current landscape of venture capital. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

This week OpenAI released ChatGPT, its prototype AI chatbot. On this episode of Intercom on Product, Intercom Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer Des Traynor sits down to chat with our Director of Machine Learning, Fergal Reid for reaction and analysis on the implications of ChatGPT and what the future holds. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https:...

We continue our ongoing series on the product principles that shape what we build and how we build it. On this episode we're joined by Intercom Product Designer, Eugenia Ortiz who explains why designers should take ownership of what they ship and Director of Product Management Stephen Forbes talking about how spending a large chunk of time prioritizing and defining a problem before moving on to bu...

Earlier this year ProfitWell founder Patrick Campbell sold his company to SaaS payments platform Paddle for $200M. On today's show Patrick sits down to chat about the good, the bad and the ugly of selling your company, applying first principles to subscription growth, and creating content for your audience, not search engines. You'll find a full transcript here: https://www.intercom.com/blog/podca...

We're joined by Chili Piper’s Co-Founder Alina Vandenberghe for a conversation about starting a company from scratch, the importance of a marketing strategy that drives growth, and the perks of being remote-first. You can read a full transcript here: https://www.intercom.com/blog/podcasts/chili-piper-alina-vandenberghe-bootstrapping-to-success/ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy...

With innovation units, there’s no need for the traditional rules and regulations that typically bound a more established organization. No need to get saddled with historical tech debt or antiquated third-party tools. Progress gets measured by learnings – not growth, revenue, or retention –, so you get to try new ideas, take bigger risks, move fast and break things. And that’s what we’re exploring...

In today’s episode, we sat down with Surfboard founder Natasha Ratanshi-Stein to chat about managing remote teams, the challenges of creating a new category, and how planning software can help businesses create a more seamless, holistic customer experience. You'll find a full transcript on our blog: https://www.intercom.com/blog/podcasts/surfboard-founder-natasha-ratanshi-stein-planning-software-f...

In today’s episode we're joined by Alex Delivet, founder of document management platform Collect, for a chat about his love for SaaS, the challenges of starting a business, and the future of data collection. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Intercom co-founder Des Traynor talks to Tony Ulwick, the inventor of outcome-driven innovation and a decades-long champion of jobs-to-be-done as a method for product design. Read a full transcript here: https://www.intercom.com/blog/podcasts/podcast-tony-ulwick-on-jobs-to-be-done/ This episode was originally published on 12/10/15 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Priv...

The best way to engage with your customers is by delivering the right message, to the right person, at the right time. On today's episode, meet the five new product innovations that will help you achieve that as Chief Product Officer Paul Adams reveals our latest, next-generation product innovations and discusses why in-product messaging is key to thrive in today’s economy. Watch the video here: h...

We sat down with management coach Lara Hogan to chat about leading and supporting a team – from learning mentoring and coaching skills to mastering the delicate art of feedback.  Read a transcript of the episode here: https://www.intercom.com/blog/podcasts/management-coach-lara-hogan-on-leadership/ Listen to Lara's previous conversation on Inside Intercom when she joined us to talk about publ...

This week on the podcast, members of our Engineering and Product Design teams discuss the principles that help us shape the solution and build in small steps. Group Engineering Manager, Levent Ali, explains how engineers should be taking ownership of the solution and Principle Product Engineer, Aidan Lynch, talks about how delivering changes in a series of small, easy-to-understand steps speeds up...

Geocodio Co-Founder and author of Deploy Empathy: A practical guide to interviewing customers Michele Hansen joins us to talk about all things customer interviews – how, when and who to interview; what to do with the results; and specific tactics to get the most out of it. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info...

Emojis. We use them to add richness to online conversations, emphasize a point, and even create a sense of rapport with customers. On today's episode we're joined by Keith Broni, Editor in Chief at Emojipedia, Leslie O'Flahavan, writing trainer and coach and E-WRITE founder, Tomoko Yokoi, researcher and advisor in digital transformations at the IMD Business School in Switzerland and Karen Church,...

In today’s episode of Intercom on Product, Des Traynor, Co founder and Chief Strategy Officer, and Paul Adams, Chief Product Officer, sit down with our Director of Machine Learning, Fergal Reid to talk about the recent buzz surrounding neural networks, how machine learning is powering businesses, and what we can expect from the technology in the next few years. See Privacy Policy at https://art19....

Following engineering stints at Google, Pulse and Medium – as both an IC and tech lead – Jean Hsu stepped away from the codebase to help coach others on how to navigate their own transition into management. In this conversation from our archives, Jean shares the struggles encountered in her own move to management, the importance of psychological safety in the workplace, and how to fill the leaders...

In this disinformation age, troll farms, fake news, and hate speech run amok – and the truth is harder and harder to spot. Can content moderation help us protect online communities from its consequences? This week we're joined by Kinzen’s CEO Mark Little to talk about the evolution of journalism, the rise of misinformation, and what we can do to protect online communities from harmful content. See...

Today's guest is Sarah Dayan - a staff engineer at Algolia, a “Search-as-a-Service” platform that helps developers build index and search capabilities into their own platforms through an API. Intercom Principle Engineer Brian Scanlan sat down to chat with Sarah about the many nuances, proficiencies, and expectations of a staff plus engineer role. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and...

Janelle Estes is the author of User Tested: How the World's Top Companies Use Human Insight to Create Great Experiences. In this episode, we sat down with Janelle to talk about the power of human insight, how to scale it throughout your organization, and its role in creating a culture of customer empathy. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art1...

This week on the show, listen to members of our Engineering and Product Design teams discuss the principles that help us ship fast and scale quickly. Intercom Staff Product Engineer Waheed El Miladi and Principle Product Designer Gustavs Cirulis join us to discuss how technical conservatism helps Intercom scale faster and how focusing on connected, modular systems help us address the right questio...

In today’s episode, we sat down with Intercom VP EMEA of Sales Sanj Bhayro to talk about scaling sales teams, what makes a great salesperson, and strategies to deliver the best outcomes for your customers. We're hiring: https://www.intercom.com/careers See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

This month, we have passed the three million download mark for the podcast, and to celebrate this milestone, we've dived into the archive to bring you highlights from three of our most popular episodes: Rachel Hepworth , at the time the head of growth marketing at Slack, talks about starting a growth marketing team at a startup that had long relied on word of mouth for its growth; Andrew Chen , ge...

In today’s episode, Intercom Chief Revenue Officer Leandra Fishman sat down to chat with Stripe's Head of Strategic Accounts for the Americas James Dyett - about the how of sales, building long-term partnerships through a customer-centric approach, and, speaking of partnerships, the launch of Intercom’s integration in the new Stripe App Marketplace, furthering our shared commitment to offer person...

For years, accessibility has hardly been a priority in the tech industry. But companies are finally starting to realize that designing services for all is a move where everyone wins. In today’s episode, we chat with Stark's CEO Cat Noone about building accessible products and the importance of software that doesn’t exclude by design. You'll find a full transcript of today's episode here: https://w...

We sat down to talk to forms specialist Caroline Jarrett about her seven-step process for designing, running and reporting considerate surveys that get results and don’t bombard customers all the time. 9yBxRQBdDTJYXIBgCrPS See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .