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The decade software ate the world

Intercom, Inc.

It was in August 2011 that Marc Andreessen coined the famous phrase “ Software is eating the world ” in a Wall Street Journal op-ed. He suggested that “we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy.”.

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Open-Source Slack AI – How & Why I Built v1.0 in 3 Days

Bryce York

Turbo) Channel overviews – Generate an outline of the channel’s purpose based on the extended message history (powered by an ensemble of NLP models and a little GPT-4 to explain the analysis in natural language) Channel summaries (beta) – Generate a detailed summary of a channel’s extended history (powered by GPT-3.5-Turbo).

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2022 on Inside Intercom

Intercom, Inc.

For one, Eoghan McCabe , our Co-founder and Chairman, returned to the role of CEO , the position he had held from our founding in 2011 until 2020 – and he is bringing a renewed focus on the customer service space, so you can expect to see even more innovation from us in that area. Zara Burke , Principal Editor.

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The top marketing statistics for 2018 and why they matter

Intercom, Inc.

Messaging: Ignore at your peril. As marketers we’re always yearning to understand how consumers want to engage, and increasingly, that’s through the personal, real-time, device-agnostic medium of messaging. 10 minutes: The average daily time US consumers spent in a messaging app in 2017 was 10 minutes, up 15.2% Engagement.

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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. The state of tooling in 2010 or 2011 was that there was no Stripe, there was no subscription management and the idea of a SaaS economy was just nonsense.

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STICKY POST: All Talks From Business of Software Conferences in One Place

Business of Software Conference

Claire Suellentrop: Get Out Of The Echo Chamber: How To Use JTBD To Perfect Your Product’s Messaging. Azeem Azhar: Should We Be Worried About AI and Machine Learning? Talks from BoS USA 2011. Isa Watson: Making Workplaces Work For Humans. Rahul Vohra: The Product-Market Fit Engine. Talks from BoS Europe 2018.

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The Future of Product Management: Top Trends to Look Out For

Userpilot

Artificial intelligence will become integral to product management Unless you’ve lived under a rock for the last couple of years, you know how AI is revolutionizing every aspect of the tech industry. It’s been over 22 years since the Agile Manifesto was released and The Lean Startup by Eric Ries was published in 2011.