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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. You’ll find the ongoing series here.

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

Intercom, Inc.

Frequent touch points and positive interactions will create strong relationships and build customer loyalty. 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.

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The Ultimate Guide to SaaS Customer Success in 2022

Userpilot

Trends in customer health score data can tell you if your business changes are having a positive impact. 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. Measure customer success at every point in the customer lifecycle to spot areas to improve on.

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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

Business of Software Conference

For those of you that don’t know, DataSift launched efficiently in end of 2011 with a proposition that was pretty hearty. Remember when social media was going to be all things about positive change for the world and people had big banners that said “thank you Facebook”? We also drove a huge amount of inbound.

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New at Intercom uncut: Watch our entire virtual launch event

Intercom, Inc.

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. Loyalty comes from a strong relationship, which itself comes from repeated positive experiences. We had an inbound sales team as well, basically quite a few groups.