

The Ticket: Discover the Future of Customer Service, Support, and Experience, with Intercom
Intercom
On The Ticket, you'll hear Intercom's Customer Support team in conversation with the customer service leaders, renowned customer experience thinkers, and influential authors who are shaping the field of customer support.Follow The Ticket to get the weekly episodes and sign up for our twice-monthly newsletter bursting with all the insights, trends, tips, and assets your team needs to embrace the future of customer service. https://www.intercom.com/blog/newsletter🏠 www.intercom.com
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May 10, 2018 • 35min
Andrew Chen, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz
What do Dropbox, Uber, AngelList, Front, Gusto and Boba Guys have in common? All have benefited from the sage advice of growth expert Andrew Chen. Now a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, Andrew shares his latest thinking on viral growth, user acquisition, "The Law of Shitty Clickthroughs" and more.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

May 3, 2018 • 32min
Rohini Pandhi, Product Lead at Square
Rohini Pandhi has been a product manager at early-stage startups all the way up to publicly traded companies. Now a Product Lead at Square, Rohini sits down with Intercom Senior Product Manager Michelle Fitzpatrick to share her tips for staying close to customers, parsing feedback and prioritization at scale.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Apr 26, 2018 • 30min
Nir Eyal on designing healthy habits
Nir Eyal's best-selling book "Hooked" explores how to design habit-forming products. In conversation with Intercom's Adam Risman, he explains how to create healthy habits, how to avoid bad ones, and what questions thoughtful product designers should be asking themselves as they make frequency improvements within their product.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Apr 19, 2018 • 31min
How to run less software, featuring Intercom's Rich Archbold
In engineering, you want to move fast, ship often and solve real customer problems. Yet competition and the exponential rate of change in software push against that mission. Enter our philosophy of Run Less Software. It means reducing choices amongst engineering teams and standardizing technology, so our team can spend as much time as possible delivering value to customers. Rich Archbold, Senior Director of Engineering at Intercom, explains all.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Apr 12, 2018 • 24min
Zack Onisko, CEO at Dribbble
As the CEO of Dribbble, a global community and invite-only platform for designers to share and find work, Zack Onisko faces a unique challenge: growing a gated product. In this conversation with Intercom Director of Brand Design Stewart Scott-Curran, Zack explains the similarities between how designers and growth marketers solve problems, why Dribbble has remained invite-only, how grassroots events have grown the Dribbble brand, and much more.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Apr 5, 2018 • 31min
Gina Gotthilf, former VP of Marketing and Growth at Duolingo
As VP of Marketing and Growth at Duolingo, Gina Gotthilf played a key role in getting the app to more than 200 million users. And these aren’t just signups who’ve gone dark; Duolingo users complete 7 billion lessons each month. In a chat with Intercom's Adam Risman, Gina shares how gaming principles influenced her growth experiments, her team’s most successful retention tactics, and much more.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Mar 29, 2018 • 30min
Eric Siu, CEO at Single Grain
Eric Siu has helped some of the biggest brands in tech, including Amazon, Lyft, Intuit and Salesforce, grow their revenue. Also the host of two podcasts – Marketing School and Growth Everywhere – using content to nurture and ultimately convert leads is Eric’s sweet spot. In this chat with Intercom's Adam Risman, Eric explains why content is a channel worthy of early investment, the tactics he sees as underutilized, when to ask your audience for something in return, and more.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Mar 22, 2018 • 32min
Brian Rothenberg, VP and GM at Eventbrite
Brian Rothenberg, VP and GM at Eventbrite, shares his journey from co-founding SkillSlate to leading growth at the largest self-service event ticketing platform. He discusses the vital link between a company’s mission and its growth. Brian outlines strategies for scaling growth teams and navigating the complexities of B2C versus B2B focuses. He emphasizes the role of empathy and strategic collaboration in driving success and explores the challenges of managing horizontal marketplaces while enhancing user experience through local engagement.

Mar 15, 2018 • 27min
Will Larson, Foundation Engineering at Stripe
Will Larson has managed infrastructure teams for some of the biggest names in software. Today, he’s leading Foundation Engineering at Stripe, where his group builds the tools that support every Stripe engineer and keep Stripe reliable and performant. In this chat with Intercom engineering manager Todd Royal, Will shares how he keeps his team innovating, when to hire generalists vs. specialists, the nuances of managing in a high growth environment, and more.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Mar 8, 2018 • 28min
Dan Swift, CEO at Empire Selling
As a former sales leader at LinkedIn and Sprinklr, Dan Swift has been up close and personal with driving high growth. Today with his company Empire Selling, Dan's helping B2B companies grow revenue and deepen customer relationships through digital and social selling training. In this episode, he breaks down the challenges and rewards of sales at high growth companies, the do's and don'ts of social selling techniques, how salespeople can use content to play the role of trusted advisor, and more.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.


