article thumbnail

Intercom’s Rich Archbold on how to run less software

Intercom, Inc.

Over time I had eight different jobs there and progressed from an engineer, to technical project manager, to technical program manager, to manager, to a manager of managers. You can think of them beginning from very base infrastructural technologies, and in our case we’re betting exclusively on AWS as a cloud vendor.

article thumbnail

AMA at SaaStr Annual 2022 with SaaStr Founder & CEO Jason Lemkin – Part 1 (Pod 607 + Video)

SaaStr

But as time went on, we shared lessons, what best practices were in customer success and revenue retention and all these things are, right. But it was super interesting that the two big interviews I did were with Ben Chestnut from Mailchimp yesterday and with Dharmesh and Brian from Hubspot. And I don’t mean in an edgy way.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast

Intercom, Inc.

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Government services shouldn’t be renowned for their endless queues, confusing forms, and excessive bureaucracy. Listen to the rest of the interview here. Zanade Mann , founder of Black Women’s Business Collective. What’s the sequence?

article thumbnail

SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Crossbeam and Podium – January 10, 2020

SaaStr

Prior to Crossbeam, Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018. How does Bob think about when is the right time to hire a Head of Partnerships? Where do most startups go wrong both in hiring for partnerships and in the engagements themselves? Harry Stebbings.

article thumbnail

What SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin Really Thinks About AI, Sales & Lead Gen In 2024

SaaStr

For part one of this Ask Me Anything session, Jason covers everything you need to know about hiring your first VP of Sales, what he really thinks about AI, what the future of lead generation in 2024 looks like, and much more. In this interview, David Sacks talks about how 70-80% of investor time is spent looking at AI.

Scale 241
article thumbnail

Three million downloads and counting: Inside Intercom reaches a podcasting milestone

Intercom, Inc.

What started as a series of interviews by co-founder Des Traynor soon bloomed into hundreds of episodes where we explore how businesses are driving growth through customer relationships and how to build successful products at scale. I’m recording the first in what I expect to be a series of interesting interviews.

article thumbnail

SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Bernadette Nixon, Jay Snyder, Nick Mehta, Loren Padelford, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

We’ve got everything from self-service all the way up to the enterprise. So how we accomplish something at the enterprise level in a one to few or a one-to-one or a one to few is very different to how you would accomplish it in a self service model. From contract signature to launch. Nick Mehta: Yeah. Jay Snyder: 100%.