Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

I’m referring to the full spectrum of business execution, from product management to design to engineering to marketing to sales to support and all the other functions needed to scale a business. Investors are incentivised to put their money anywhere other than a bank. Basic marketing and selling at a global scale is becoming easy too.

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User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

It’s suitable for businesses wanting control over their infrastructure and the ability to scale. Key examples are Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, which provide scalable resources like virtual servers and storage. This lets you focus more on core activities rather than software development.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. Retail was mentioned twice, that’s it, and AWS was mentioned 78 times, so it’s probably not surprising that they’re doing this. We talked about growth.

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SaaStr

JUNE 15, 2021

Twilio is a cloud communications platform that allows software developers to embed communications into the apps that they’re building. I think of developers as the strategy to get into the market for whatever you’re doing. Jason : He does have a significant amount of scale though. Jeff : He does have scale.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 16, 2020

I think one challenging thing is when you look at the scale of organizations and you think about change management with new tools. I think that storytelling is a bit of a lost art in software development and we’re starting to rediscover it. Harry Stebbings: Terrible metaphor. Harry Stebbings: No, I’m kidding.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

Justin Bedecarre: And then another client of ours is an international company that has decided that they truly want to scale up in San Francisco. We don’t know when we’re going to be able to get safely back at scale. And they’re going to reduce their commute by 45 minutes. We’ve been doing it for over a decade.

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