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Intercom! | SF, Dublin, London, Chicago, Sydney

https://www.intercom.com/careers


Is there a way to send a general expression of interest ? I would like to join the Sydney offices but there are no open position I would fit in at the moment (Software engineering)


If you feel this way, you should quit and start your own company, raise money, recruit a team, and be CEO yourself. You’ll never be happy in your current position, and you’ll never understand what your current CEO did and does until you do it yourself. Good luck.


Figma is awesome. Joining them would be a great idea.


Intercom!

SF, Dublin, Chicago, London

We're about to start two major new initiatives that we will be expanding the company for dramatically. Now is a very fun time to join.

https://www.intercom.com/careers/


Excited about what they're working on. A digital network that more closely represented actual relationships could be a valuable and interesting tool.



I invested in this company. I love the idea and the founders. Startups are hard.


How does a company that has made $1.5M revenue and is growing 50% in the last 6 months go out of business? Raise too much money? Inaccurate business plan? Wishful thinking about future funding to provide economies of scale? Lack of due diligance by investors?

Not trying to be confrontational or rude, just genuinely curious.


unit economics

I would make 1.5m in rev so fast if I gave each of my customers $1 for $.90!


That's always the risk with a business plan like this. Uber seems to have a similar business model, but the difference is that Uber is an easily scalable business that has become a household name. Investors are happy to keep throwing money at Uber until they have taken over the world, and then they can worry about profit. Not every business is going to be an Uber, so it's a big risk basing your business plan on requiring constant injections of cash until you become a billion dollar business.


Just as Amazon does.


Why didn't you feel Uber would eventually be able to serve this niche?


CEO of Intercom here.

We launched here, 1,741 days ago apparently! :flushed:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2718354

Thank you for your help along the way. The HN community has always been really good to us.


Intercom | San Francisco and Dublin, Ireland

We make simple products to help internet businesses connect with their customers. We're exploding by every metric right now and are hiring for a range of positions:

https://www.intercom.io/careers


You should quit your job if you hit even one of those items on the list.


Well damn; I've literally never had a job (big company or small) where I truly enjoyed the culture or connected with the founders. I guess I'm unemployable.


Nah, not at all. You just need to keep looking. It's certainly not easy. But I think that life is WAY too short to work anywhere you aren't entirely happy with.


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