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Oct 2024
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20VC: Why Most AI Investments Will Do Wo...

Harry Stebbings
About this episode

Eoghan McCabe is the Co-Founder and CEO @ Intercom, one of the largest private software companies in the valley with hundreds of millions in revenue and thousands of customers. To date, Eoghan has raised over $238M from Index, Kleiner Perkins, ICONIQ, GV, Bessemer and more incredible firms. Intercom’s goal is to reinvent customer service with AI agents replacing human agents over the next 10 years.

10 Questions with One of the Largest Private Company CEO’s:

  1. AI Investing: Why will most AI investments not do better than the S&P 500?

  2. Building SaaS Tools with AI: Why is it crazy for companies to follow Klarna and use AI to build their own tools?

  3. Going Public: Why is Bill Gurley wrong that more later stage companies should go public? Why did Intercom shelve plans to go public in 2022?

  4. Early-Stage is F*******: Why is the early-stage venture ecosystem as an asset class f******?

  5. Founder Mode: Why does Eoghan believe all of the best founders are unbalanced? What is the difference between Founder vs Manager mode? 

  6. Political Voice: Why did Eoghan decide he had to voice his political opinions now?

  7. The Danger of Harris: Why does Eoghan believe a Harris administration would rob the US of immense freedom, democracy and civil liberty?

  8. Why Vote Trump: Why does Eoghan believe that Trump will regain immense freedom for the sovereign individual?

  9. Freedom of Speech: How does Eoghan determine right vs wrong when freedom of speech leads to harm and injustice? 

  10. Middle East and Nuclear War: Why does Eoghan believe that nuclear war is much closer than we think? Will we see the Middle East descend into war? 

 

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