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HubSpot’s Michael Redbord on staying in touch with your customers as you scale

Intercom, Inc.

Move away from this concept and toward the idea of a flywheel instead: feeding energy back into the system instead of success rates diminishing over time. Michael: Most people listening probably think of HubSpot as this inbound marketing company. Speak the customer’s language. That concept was really, really powerful for us.

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Reflecting on the Intercom journey – Karen Peacock and Des Traynor in conversation

Intercom, Inc.

I moved out to the East Coast of the US to go to Harvard where I majored in applied math with a focus on decision systems and artificial intelligence before it was cool. It was just the most broken system ever. “We were actually talking to customers. Why the hell is it so hard? Which customers? Active ones.