Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Rise of mobile. Inspired by Andreessen’s maxim, in 2014 Benedict Evans coined the phrase “ Mobile is eating the world ,” which in retrospect feels like it downplayed just how much our daily lives have become consumed by our smartphones. . Big tech takes over.

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FastSpring

MARCH 10, 2023

But I mean, if you go back to 2006 2007 2008 like that, yeah, that was just not a thing that people did. Like the way that we do it. Now we take it for granted now. Alf Ruppert Yes. Now the usual thing, but still not on still on the Mac, you have hurdles today because, on Windows PCs, there’s a there’s TAPI API.

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SaaStr

JULY 20, 2021

It’s a brutal, awful slog in the start. I would say, it’s always good to call out just how awful it is to be a founder, to be an entrepreneur, because that is a unique perspective that you bring to the board room that no one else shares. That sounds like an awful idea,” and then you have to work for it.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

We’ve all seen AWS and what they’ve done with their platform. I bootstrapped the company with my co-founder in 2007. For every, our big acquisitions that we did along the way were a company called BrainKing in 2007, 2017, and ZoomInfo, which I founded the business as a company called DiscoverOrg. It is staggering.

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