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Zendesk

Zendesk

software
Last discussed Sep 25, 2026

Customer service software platform for support ticket management and customer communications

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a16z
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vs: Contrasted with Lightfield to illustrate seat-based pricing disruption in AI era

"Thank god you run Lightfield and not Zendesk, right? It's like how many seats do you need — maybe zero."

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Nico Wittenborn
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"They were early in Zendesk and Loom later on here in the US."

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Nan Yu
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"A lot of customer support agents will use Linear by escalating things out of Zendesk or Intercom, and that's their entire Linear surface usage."

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Greg Isenberg
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Used for: Example of existing software that AI agents integrate with

"If it touches already software — so if it touches Gmail or Slack or Shopify, HubSpot, Zendesk, Stripe — agents need these tools so they can use it."

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"You have companies like Zendesk, which is pretty big already doing this"

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Amjad Masad
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Used for: Customer support ticket management vs: Replit team built additional prioritization tools on top of Zendesk

"They went to the support team and was like, 'Okay, you know, you're using Zendesk and all these other tools. What are the main problems?'"

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Eugene Lopez
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Used for: System integration for enterprise automation

"We do ServiceNow, Jira, Outlook, of course, can't forget Outlook, Salesforce, Zendesk are some of the main ones."

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Alex Rampell
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"Like if I'm Zendesk, I'm using Zendesk and they came up with a very clever pricing model"

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Jason Lemkin
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"If your traditional support software like Zendesk the old Zendesk is growing 0% like we are cutting humans."

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