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Intercom turns 10: Highlights from our first decade

Intercom, Inc.

Sensing an opportunity, they switched their focus and Intercom was born – the app was released in private beta in July and the company was founded in August, 2011. It’s hard to recall now, but before Intercom released the world’s first in-app messenger in 2011, the chat bubble was not a ubiquitous feature of apps or websites.

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2022 on Inside Intercom

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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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New at Intercom uncut: Watch our entire virtual launch event

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And we have over 180,000 teammates logging into Intercom every month, using our platform to send over 500 million messages and reply to over 20 million conversations. We’re used to being left on hold, being swamped with irrelevant messages in spam, trying new products or features that are just hard to navigate and use.

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The Ultimate Guide to SaaS Customer Success in 2022

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Oracle’s 2011 CEI report found that 86% of buyers are willing to pay more for a product if they have a better customer experience. Having interactive product guides at the start of the onboarding process is another practice that can reduce inbound support tickets while improving the customer experience.

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

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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. We incorporated in San Francisco on August 15th, 2011, I think. At the time, we were all based in Dublin. Once we got the money, we immediately started hiring.

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

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Claire Suellentrop: Get Out Of The Echo Chamber: How To Use JTBD To Perfect Your Product’s Messaging. Rand Fishkin: Helping Customers Find You Online – The Ever Changing World of Inbound Marketing. Talks from BoS USA 2011. Isa Watson: Making Workplaces Work For Humans. Rahul Vohra: The Product-Market Fit Engine.

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“It Was The Best Of Times, It Was The Worst Of Times” – Every CEO Ever | Tim Barker, DataSift | BoS Europe 2018

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For those of you that don’t know, DataSift launched efficiently in end of 2011 with a proposition that was pretty hearty. We also drove a huge amount of inbound. Of course we all start with bigger ambitions – to nail it, to crush it, to knock it out of the park and all those other colloquialisms we’ve come to love.