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Lucy Allen, General Manager and Head of Bay Area at Edelman
Lucy Allen has spent the past two decades working with technology companies of all sizes – from young startups to the likes of SAP and Adobe – to build their profile and share their stories. Here, she chats with Intercom's Jennifer Kutz about how to find PR angles that are actually newsworthy, why conversational interfaces are changing the PR paradigm, and much more.
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26:4412/01/2017
Talking product with Intercom's Des Traynor, Paul Adams and Emmet Connolly
Des Traynor sits down with Paul Adams, VP of Product, and Emmet Connolly, Director of Product Design, to discuss the biggest trends of the past year, including bots, conversational commerce, and voice UIs, as well as where product is headed in 2017.
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35:4905/01/2017
Maria Giudice, VP of Experience Design at Autodesk
Maria Giudice, VP of Experience Design at Autodesk, talks to Intercom's Adam Risman about how to create an experience-centered culture, why everyone in your company needs exposure to customers, tackling guerrilla research, and much more.
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30:1615/12/2016
Daniel Burka, Design Partner at GV
Daniel Burka has spent his career at the intersection of design and business leadership. He’s currently a design partner at GV (formerly Google Ventures) and spent the prior decade-plus helping technology companies with product design. Here, Daniel explains how design can solve business problems, the role of sprints in a healthy design culture, and much more.
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28:1908/12/2016
Hugh Durkin, Senior Product Manager at Intercom
Intercom Senior Product Manager Hugh Durkin chats with John Collins about why browsers – not apps – are the future of mobile consumption, what shopping centers and fast-food chains can teach us about building better software platforms, and much more.
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22:3801/12/2016
Aarron Walter, VP of Design Education at InVision
Aarron Walter knows plenty about scaling a design team and culture. Before joining InVision as VP of Design Education, he started the experience design team at MailChimp. In this episode, Aarron chats with Intercom's Adam Risman about hiring for soft skills, the benefits of cross-functional teams, how to design for empathy, and more.
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25:4217/11/2016
Chase Clemons, Support Pro at Basecamp
Chase Clemons, Support Pro at Basecamp and host of the Support Ops podcast, talks with Intercom's Adam Risman about keeping your support team happy, eliminating knowledge silos, and why self-serve help content can't be an afterthought.
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33:0310/11/2016
Lara Hogan, Engineering Director at Etsy
Lara Hogan, Director of Engineering at Etsy, talks to Intercom's Geoffrey Keating about managing with empathy, tech's diversity problem, and her new book, Demystifying Public Speaking.
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23:2102/11/2016
Elizabeth McGuane, Content Strategy Lead At Intercom
Intercom's Content Strategy Lead Elizabeth McGuane talks to Des Traynor about the importance of words in product building. Elizabeth's role is all about using language, tone and mental models to create better experiences for our customers.
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27:2527/10/2016
Jeff Vincent, Product At Wistia
Jeff Vincent works on the product team at Wistia, the video platform for business, but formerly ran their customer support operation. The common thread is a focus on solving customer problems. He chats to Intercom's Director of Customer Support, Jeff Gardner.
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31:2820/10/2016
Jared Spool, Founder Of User Interface Engineering
User Interface Engineering founder Jared Spool chats with Intercom's Des Traynor about his new design school, Center Centre. Jared shares why recent design graduates struggle in the workplace and what the Center Centre curriculum is doing differently. They also discuss why successful companies must cross what Jared calls "the UX Tipping Point".
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31:5113/10/2016
Elizabeth Yin, Partner at 500 Startups
Tasked with running 500 Startups’ Mountain View accelerator, Elizabeth Yin is helping some of tomorrow’s most exciting startups get off the ground. In this conversation with Intercom Managing Editor John Collins, Elizabeth explains the difficulties of running your startup while pitching investors, why founders need to get a handle on taking rejection, and much more.
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23:0906/10/2016
Ilya Fushman, General Partner at Index Ventures
As a General Partner at Index Ventures and the former Head of Product at Dropbox, Ilya Fushman knows plenty about how to scale your product and the challenges your team will face along the way. He shares his lessons learned on product roadmaps, building platforms and more with Matt Hodges, Intercom's Senior Director of Product Marketing.
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33:5629/09/2016
Samuel Hulick, Founder, UserOnboard
Onboarding isn't a metric, it's an outcome – successful users. And it's crucial to your product's survival. UserOnboard founder Samuel Hulick explains how to set users up for success, why your onboarding is always evolving, where to find inspiration outside of the software world, and much more.
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32:0522/09/2016
Darragh Curran, VP of Engineering at Intercom
Shipping is your company's heartbeat, and at Intercom we're shipping code to production more than 100 times a day. Intercom VP of Engineering, Darragh Curran, talks with Co-Founder Des Traynor about how he's scaled the engineering team and culture behind it.
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30:1415/09/2016
Michael Pryor, CEO at Trello
Trello CEO and Fog Creek Software Co-Founder Michael Pryor talks with Intercom's Des Traynor about how to build and scale a mass-market software product. Their chat covers the ways Fog Creek’s previous products informed Trello, prioritizing feature requests for a product with diverse use cases, the importance of pricing for value, and more.
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34:5401/09/2016
Val Head, Interface Animation Designer
Intercom Director of Product Design Emmet Connolly chats with web and UI animation specialist Val Head. Val discusses designing animation for web vs mobile, the importance of establishing motion guidelines for your brand, where designers can get started with animation, and more.
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29:4025/08/2016
Hunter Walk, Partner at Homebrew
In a conversation with Intercom Content Marketing Manager Adam Risman, Hunter Walk reflects on his lessons learned as Director of Product Management at YouTube. He shares why empathy and prioritization are key for a product manager's success, and also explains how he selects his seed investments at Hombrew.
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36:4118/08/2016
Erika Hall, Director of Strategy at Mule Design
Intercom Director of Brand Design Stewart Scott-Curran sits down with Erika Hall, Co-Founder and Director of Strategy at Mule Design. They chat about the importance of language in design, the role of trust in a client-designer relationship, why research simply isn’t optional, and more.
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35:4205/08/2016
Seattle Startup Panel, Inside Intercom World Tour
At the Seattle stop of the Inside Intercom World Tour, Intercom content marketing manager Adam Risman hosts a panel of founders from local startups. They talk finding an underserved market, fighting feature bloat, competition, and more. Panelists include Andrew Kinzer, co-founder and CPO at Outreach; Amanda Osborne, co-founder and CMO at Meshfire; and Aseem Badshah, founder and CEO at Socedo.
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23:4028/07/2016
Matt Hodges, Senior Director of Marketing at Intercom
Matt Hodges, Intercom's first marketer, shares how Job-to-be-Done can shape your product's story, his strategy for prioritizing marketing efforts in SaaS, tips for scaling a marketing team, and much more.
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32:0920/07/2016
Toronto Startup Panel, Inside Intercom World Tour
At the Toronto stop of the Inside Intercom World Tour, Intercom content marketing manager Adam Risman hosts a panel of leaders from area startups. They talk competition, JTBD, growth, and more. Panelists include Caterina Rizzi, co-founder and CCO at Breather; Tyler Rooney, co-founder and CPO at Format; and Amrita Chandra, head of marketing at CrowdRiff.
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22:0112/07/2016
Jason Fried, CEO at Basecamp
Intercom co-founder and chief strategy officer Des Traynor chats with Basecamp co-founder and CEO Jason Fried. Jason explains when to rebuild a successful product, why chat software in the workplace has gone overboard, what makes Basecamp's work culture unique, and much more.
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34:2501/07/2016
Boston Startup Panel, Inside Intercom World Tour
At the Boston stop of the Inside Intercom World Tour, managing editor John Collins hosts a panel of leaders from local startups. It's all about how to start and scale a successful product. Panelists include Eli Rosen, VP of Customers Success at Dispatch; Meghan Keaney Anderson, VP of Marketing at HubSpot; and Nikos Moraitakis, Founder and CEO at Workable.
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25:5823/06/2016
New York Startup Panel, Inside Intercom World Tour
At the New York stop of the Inside Intercom World Tour, Forbes Senior Editor, Steve Bertoni, hosts a panel of local startup founders. The chat is all about what makes great product, and panelists include Lindsay Boyajian, CMO at Augment; Mike Boufford, VP of Engineering at Greenhouse; Christian Bjelland, Founding Team of Hello Alfred.
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25:1616/06/2016
Julie Zhuo, VP of Product Design at Facebook
Julie Zhuo chats with Intercom content marketing manager Adam Risman about what makes great product design, establishing early design principles, team building, and much more. Plus, Intercom director of product design Emmet Connolly talks about his principles of bot design.
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33:5209/06/2016
Paris Startup Panel, Inside Intercom World Tour
At the Paris stop of the Inside Intercom World Tour, managing editor John Collins hosts a panel of local startup founders. The chat is all about what makes great product, and panelists include Jean-François Chianetta, co-founder and CEO at Augment; Julien Lemoine, co-founder and CTO at Algolia; and Isabelle George, co-founder of Weroom.
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20:2602/06/2016
Poornima Vijayshanker, Founder At Femgineer
Poornima Vijayshanker is the founder of Femgineer, an education startup helping tech professionals advance their careers and build great product, while promoting inclusivity in the industry.
In this episode, she chats with Intercom content marketing manager Adam Risman about the role of empathy in building product, what she learned in her transition from engineer to startup founder, and much more.
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35:3525/05/2016
London Startup Panel, Inside Intercom World Tour
Intercom managing editor John Collins hosts a panel of London-based startups at the first stop of the Inside Intercom World Tour. It's a lively discussion about what makes great product, and panelists include Bridget Harris, CEO and co-founder of You Can Book Me; Will Swannell, CEO and co-founder of Hire Space; and James Blackwell, co-founder of Buzz Sumo.
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22:1518/05/2016
Bob Moesta, President At The Re-Wired Group
Intercom co-founder Des Traynor takes a deep dive into the Jobs-to-be-Done framework for innovation with Bob Moesta, President and CEO at The Re-Wired Group. Bob is a principal architect of JTBD and has had a hand in developing more than 3,500 products in the past 30 years.
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39:0612/05/2016
Andy Budd, CEO At Clearleft
Intercom co-founder Des Traynor chats with Clearleft CEO and design thought leader Andy Budd. Andy explains why young startups tend to prioritize development over design, the role designers will play in the new world of voice and chat-based UIs, and much more.
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32:5128/04/2016
Sarah Hatter, Founder & CEO At CoSupport
Intercom customer support lead Sabrina Gordon chats with CoSupport founder and Elevate Summit host Sarah Hatter. Sarah shares how the world of customer support is evolving, how to build and scale an empathetic support culture, why great support improves product, and much more.
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35:1614/04/2016
Tomasz Tunguz, Partner at Redpoint Ventures
Intercom co-founder and chief strategy officer Des Traynor chats with venture capitalist Tomasz Tunguz about what he looks for in a potential SaaS investment, the recent startup funding squeeze, and more.
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30:4128/03/2016
Riley Newman, Head Of Data Science At Airbnb
Intercom content marketing manager Adam Risman talks with Riley Newman about the importance of early data investment for startups, making data accessible at scale, and why data is "the voice of the customer."
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27:1417/03/2016
Chris Messina, Developer Experience Lead at Uber
Intercom content marketing manager Adam Risman chats with Chris Messina about how conversational commerce – a new trend at the intersection of AI, bots, brands and messaging – is fundamentally changing the way we design, acquire and use apps.
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36:3523/02/2016
Mike Davidson, Former VP of Design At Twitter
Emmet Connolly, Intercom Director of Product Design, talks to Mike Davidson about a range of design topics, including the design process behind Twitter's Moments, what to look for when hiring designers, and what the future of a Tweet might look like. The interview was recorded before Mike announced his recent departure from Twitter.
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47:4911/02/2016
Karen McGrane, Managing Partner, Bond Art + Science
Intercom's Elizabeth McGuane sits down with Karen McGrane to discuss when startups should start thinking about content strategy, how to communicate your brand within a product, and why you should stop thinking in pages.
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37:4128/01/2016
Paul Adams, VP of Product at Intercom
Des Traynor, Intercom co-founder, and Paul Adams chat about the principles and practices he brought to Intercom from Facebook and Google, how and why he developed a 666 roadmap for the company, and what startups should be focusing on in this coming year.
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43:5705/01/2016
Tony Ulwick, founder of innovation consulting firm Strategyn
Intercom co-founder Des Traynor talks to Tony Ulwick, the inventor of outcome-driven innovation and a decades-long champion of jobs-to-be-done as a method for product design.
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43:3408/12/2015
Ann Handley, Chief Content Marketing Officer at MarketingProfs
Intercom content marketing manager, Sara Yin, talks to Anne Handley, about why great content needs goals and metrics, and where the opportunities lie for content marketers.
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27:0226/11/2015
Intercom Live - Panel Discussion On Raising Capital
Recorded live at the Intercom on Capital event, Ethan Kurzweil, Mamood Hamid and Intercom CEO, Eoghan McCabe, talk about all things investment in a discussion led by Kathleen Estreich.
They talk about the current landscape of high valuations, the competitive advantages of working outside the Valley, and the insider info VCs can give that nobody else can.
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44:1211/11/2015
Intercom Live: Ethan Kurzweil, Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners
Recorded live at the Intercom on Capital event, Intercom CEO, Eoghan McCabe, talks to Ethan Kurzweil, Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners. Their conversation ranges from what VCs are looking for in their investments, to the effects of volatile public markets on Silicon Valley.
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15:4302/11/2015
Intercom Live: Mamoon Hamid, Partner & Co-Founder at SocialCapital
Recorded live at the Intercom on Capital event, Intercom CEO, Eoghan McCabe, talks to Mamoon Hamid, partner and co-founder at SocialCapital. They talk about raising capital, what Mamoon looks for in investments, and the future of venture capital.
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17:3927/10/2015
Brian Balfour, VP of Growth at HubSpot
Des Traynor, Intercom co-founder, and Brian Balfour chat about what jobs growth teams should focus on and how to create a foundation for meaningful, long-term growth.
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33:4513/10/2015
Margaret Gould Stewart, Director of Product Design at Facebook
Des Traynor, Intercom co-founder, and Margaret Gould Stewart talk about product design at massive scale, the aesthetics of business software and the importance of diversity on design teams.
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41:5123/09/2015
Jay Simons, President at Atlassian
Intercom senior marketing director Matt Hodges talks to Jay Simons about SaaS marketing, scaling a marketing team, and selling without a sales team.
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39:1719/08/2015
Braden Kowitz, Design Partner at Google Ventures
Intercom co-founder Des Traynor talks to Braden Kowitz about Google Ventures work with startups, the process of design sprints, sketching and prototyping, and the future of product design.
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39:0107/07/2015
Peter Merholz, Senior Director of Design with Jawbone
Intercom co-founder Des Traynor talks to Peter Merholz, Senior Director of Design with Jawbone, previously VP of Global Design at Groupon and co-founder of design agency Adaptive Path.
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47:5117/05/2015