Brian Balfour

AUGUST 3, 2017

The difference between these two are not the common mantras of build a great product, product market fit is the only thing that matters, or growth hacking. When you strip away all the outer layers, they all have essentially the same core product — a tool that lets you send and automate emails to your customers and audience.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

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. So we quickly had to build the product out and get actual users up and running. We incorporated in San Francisco on August 15th, 2011, I think.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 29, 2022

And I’d like to talk you through some of the trends we’ve observed since 2011 and some of the beliefs that underpin what we build in Intercom. We built the first Business Messenger in 2011 because we saw so many new requirements emerge. We’re seeing a shift towards designing for end user productivity.

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