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Intercom

Intercom

software

1 creator use or recommend it

1 use 11 mention
Last discussed Oct 15, 2026

A customer messaging platform that provides live chat, marketing automation, and customer support tools.

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Joseph Lee
uses

"We use Intercom for more like triggered workflows and onboarding and for marketing emails and support."

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Jason Lemkin
mentioned
Praised: AI-native reboot of the company reaching nine figures in revenue vs: Contrasted with companies reaching $1B ARR growing 50%

"Intercom and the team is great. I'm a minute shareholder, Rory's a shareholder, but that's not true scale. Kudos to Intercom for building an AI-native reboot of their company to nine figures in revenue."

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"I believe that these agents, you know, everyone from Brett Taylor to Owen at Intercom, everyone sees these agents merging and they're going to do s..."

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Rory O'Driscoll
mentioned

"We put some money in Intercom recently. Intercom achieved that valuation; it could have happened for Intercom had they sold in 2018 or 2019 in the SaaS boom."

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+2 more mentions from Rory

"Salesforce just bought Intercom, where we were lucky enough to invest less than a year ago, and that's a very outcome-based product for customer su..."

"The boring one is obviously Intercom — we've talked about a lot and we were investors, so I won't go deep — but they succeeded and did it and I'm s..."

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David George
mentioned
Used for: Example of a legacy SaaS company successfully reinventing itself as AI-native Praised: Brought founder back, revamped entire business, created AI-native product, ex... vs: Contrasted with private equity-backed software companies that cannot execute ...

"What Intercom did is a great example — bring the founder back, revamp the whole business, create an AI native product, scale it, and then sell. Like it's almost like you're suiciding your existing business, which in private equity is really hard t..."

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Riley Brown
mentioned

"I could add Intercom. And if I were to add the Intercom plugin or Gmail plugin or calendar plugin, all of the agents would also have that plugin."

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Nan Yu
mentioned
Used for: Escalating customer support tickets from Intercom into Linear issues

"Customer support agents will use Linear by escalating things out of Zendesk or Intercom. There are controls in the Intercom plugin for them to escalate and pick a template or describe the issue."

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Claire Vo
mentioned
Used for: Data source for product insights ingestion

"Like an insights ingest product where you can hook up Intercom and Linear and all these GitHub signals and suck them in and basically build a product brain."

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+1 more mention from Claire

"The Intercom team has run a bunch of evals on their internal use of Claude Code to figure out where engineers are hitting pain points, where people..."

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Michael Kim
mentioned
Praised: AI-native solution revitalized the company; returned more than an entire VC fund vs: Compared to Sierra and other AI-native competitors it was initially feared wo...

"Intercom was acquired. It's a portfolio company of Freestyle. It returned more than their entire fund. They had a really good story about implementing an AI native solution and getting traction on it. So they kind of revitalized the company."

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John Coogan
mentioned
Praised: Fantastic growth and new products under founder/wartime mode vs: Rebranded from Intercom to Finn.ai as part of founder mode transformation

"Such a wild ride to build Intercom, wind up raising a ton of money, build a great business, and then AI shows up and he gets to go back into wartime and he delivered a fantastic growth, fantastic new products, a fantastic outcome for everyone."

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David Perell
mentioned
vs: Listed alongside Calendly and Typeform as examples of products that can be si...

"Then you have tools like Calendly, Typeform, or Intercom. They're all big proven products, but you can rebuild a simple smaller version."

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Jenny Fielding
mentioned
Used for: Customer service automation with AI Praised: Bold transformation, gritty leadership, AI-native approach vs: Example of successful SaaS to AI transition

"Owen coming back and figuring out Finn was amazing. I think it's a real advantage. They're very inspiring as well. And if you find a founder like that who's just gritty as hell and wants to become an AI native company after all these years, like I..."

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Amjad Masad
mentioned
Used for: Customer support applications with specialized AI model Praised: Better at customer support than frontier models vs: Example of domain-specific model that outperforms general frontier models

"Intercom yesterday talked about their new model that is better at customer support than the Frontier models"

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