Made with Grit
Made with Grit
Landon Bennett & Kyle Conarro
29: Jeff Gardner on his 8-year journey at Intercom
1 hour 7 minutes Posted Jul 31, 2020 at 3:25 pm.
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Jeff Gardner of Graphy joins Landon and Kyle to discuss his 8-year journey at Intercom. He chats about the early days of the product (he was employee #4), growing a support team from 1 to 100, launching a developer platform, and more.

Today’s Topics:

  • Intercom pricing (and potential IPO?)
  • Growing support in lockstep with customer growth
  • The evolution of hiring needs as a company scales
  • Being remote in a majority in-person company
  • Going from "we have an API" to "we are a developer platform"
  • Advice for indie developers building on a platform
  • Back to the beginning: moving to Graphy
  • What is customer success?
  • Customers as collaborators on the product journey
  • Thinking in trade-offs

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