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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Decagon comes up
Matt Fitzpatrick: Who Wins the Data Labelling Race & Why Al Needs Forward-Deployed Engineers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:48 Harry Stebbings How am I meant to understand whether we go for Sierra or Decagon or Zendesk of old or Intercom or, or any of the other players that we've seen in the space?
a16z's David George on the Most Controversial Bet at a16z & Do Margins and Revenue Matter in AI? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:17 David George You know, Sarah and Kimberly from our side led investment, investments in Decagon.
- ▶ 40:28 David George Every time Decagon appears in one of these EBCs, there's extremely high interest and, uh, and, you know, most of the time conversion to a deal. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:48 Harry Stebbings Love Jesse and love Decagon. 4 times in the scene
SpaceX Valued at $800BN & Harvey Raises $160M at an $8BN Price & Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 56:40 Jason Lemkin I mean, 15 minutes, 10 minutes to get an answer, or I'll tell you, we can, let's find a CR implementation because I've tried with Decagon and all the rest. 2 times in the scene
Eventbrite Sold for $500M, Databricks $5B Raise at $134B Valuation & Why SaaS is Like Japan · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:54 Harry Stebbings They are going to go into Dekagon.
Anthropic Raises $30B from Microsoft & NVIDIA & NVIDIA’s Core Business Faces TPU Threat · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:12 Jason Lemkin Um, it's not a criticism of Sierra or Decacon or others, but the whole category, the enterprise side of it is massively overselling what they can deliver today.
- ▶ 51:22 Jason Lemkin And to get this fin level of experience or better or Decagon or Sierra, you got to train the thing for a month or three weeks with FDs and the rest.
Base44’s Founder, Maor Shlomo on How Vibe Coding Will Kill SaaS · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:10 Harry Stebbings Maybe a tiny, tiny portion, or build your own intercoms, or Sierras, or Decagons, and then do maintenance and updates.
20VC: Why 90% of Founders Build Startups Wrong | Why AI Growth Rates are Sustainable & Remote Work is BS and the AI Talent War | Competing with Brett Taylor and Sierra: Who Wins the Customer Service War with Jesse Zhang, Decagon
- ▶ 0:09 Harry Stebbings Today, joining us in the hot seat, we have Jesse Zhang, co-founder and CEO of Decagon, the conversational AI platform for customer experience. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:35 Harry Stebbings I just said to you beforehand, like, I'm a student of this business. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:02 Jesse Zhang I would expect a Decagon and a Sierra to be able to execute faster on a product side than Salesforce, but Salesforce has like so much distribution.
- ▶ 24:56 Jesse Zhang And so I would say in three to five years, that's going to become a lot more real where a lot of orgs will have implemented things like that gone and resolve a ton of conversations. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:44 Harry Stebbings And how do you think about the challenge respectfully of like Decadon's a hot as fuck company, but no offense against Anthropic, Meta, and Cursor, where you're just against, you know, Massa Sun styles of cash. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:35 Jesse Zhang Approach and that allows us to scale a lot faster and it allows us to enable our customers more as well, where they don't have to feel like, Hey, I need to message Decagon for everything. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:22 Jesse Zhang But if I had to shout out one person, she's a relatively small investor in Decagon, but we've been, or I personally and our team have been very, very impressed with Anu Harihan from Avra, especially on the go to market side.
- ▶ 53:00 Harry Stebbings Dude, what's the biggest internal debate you have at Dakagon today?
ElevenLabs CEO/Co-Founder, Mati Staniszewski:The Untold Story of Europe’s Fastest Growing AI Startup · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:08:16 Harry Stebbings Would you sell then to an intercom and a decagon? 4 times in the scene
Cognition CEO Scott Wu on Acquiring Windsurf: The Process, The Deal, The Rationale · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Navan Files to Go Public and Canva Pulls the Brakes: Why and What Happens? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:06:42 unnamed speaker Eliminate 20% of your service center personnel, and the resolution rate with some third party product, like Decagon, Finn, Sierra, is 50 or 60%, then you're going to lose business pretty quickly.
Duolingo Co-Founder, Severin Hacker: How AI Impacts the Future of Work and Education · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:20 Severin Hacker We use Tekagon.
- ▶ 28:33 Harry Stebbings When I hear you say about, like, 11 Labs there, or Decagon there, or even think about Duolingo, the thing that I am struck with is, ah, but OpenAI are gonna do that.
- ▶ 1:41:30 Severin Hacker We talked about Decagon. 2 times in the scene
Benchmark vs a16z: Why Stage Specific Firms Win · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:37 Harry Stebbings Uh, my question to you on the back of that is, we, we, we also see Decagon then raising at a hundred X in a similar style to 20, 21. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:40 Rory O'Driscoll Should we be one of the hundred people pleading to put money into Decagon at one and a half? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:39 Jason Lemkin So that decade gone, fifteen million came from somewhere. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:17:42 Harry Stebbings So you see, Rory, even though you have to do this on a weekly basis, at least it's better than pissing twenty million dollars out the door on a Decagon a hundred X. 2 times in the scene