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The ultimate marketing technology stack for 2019

Intercom, Inc.

By early 2018, Brinker had updated it with almost 2,000 more vendors — that’s nearly 7,000 marketing software companies fighting for the same buyers’ attention. Both landscapes are increasingly competitive and it’s little wonder that 63% of marketing executives have rated lead generation as their biggest challenges in 2018.

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Core responsibility: How we scaled our core technologies team

Intercom, Inc.

How our core technologies were being used was also diverging, leading to needlessly increased complexity in our systems. So in late 2018, Team Datastores was created, initially with a fairly conservative area of responsibility. Our databases were in significantly better shape due to our Rails ownership and expertise.

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How to fix Your Product Goals for Better Human Outcomes

Mind the Product

Their names were John Darley and Daniel Batson, and they created the Good Samaritan study to ask a seemingly simple question: why do people do good things for others? By finding a system of checks and balances that encourage better behaviour. But first a little story. The method was to test two groups. You know that, right?

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5 Machine Learning Lessons for Product Managers

Mind the Product

According to Crunchbase, in 2018 there were 5,000 startups relying on machine learning for their main and ancillary applications, products, and services. Which would you prefer: one where a barista knows your name and your favourite drink and your favourite music is playing, or one where everything is made for an average customer?

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

Intercom, Inc.

Rachel now leads the marketing team at Notion, but back then, in 2018, Rachel was head of growth marketing at Slack. We use a multi-touch attribution system. We spent a lot of time and effort setting up that foundational system, making sure that our data was really good. We actually have a bit of a system.

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10 Years of Balsamiq: What I’ve Learned | Peldi Guilizzoni, Balsamiq | BoS USA 2018

Business of Software Conference

In 2018, Balsamiq celebrated its 10th Birthday – an impressive achievement for any SaaS company. Founder Peldi has attended Business of Software every year since 2010, and has 5 BoS talks to his name. In this talk from BoS USA 2018 he shared another honest update about his worries in Balsamiq’s milestone 10th year.

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Brex’s Michael Tannenbaum on fintech growth strategies

Intercom, Inc.

Michael and his team created a lucrative reward system for startups , which they were able to do through group purchasing (taking advantage of a vertical that allowed them to buy software packages). I remember first meeting you and Enrique in August 2018, and your team was maybe 30 people? We had some big names. Tara: Right.