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Anthropic's Fable Banned by US Government | Wix & Adobe Hit All-Time Lows | Mistral Raising at $20BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 18, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 47:50 Harry Stebbings I just think that Owen and Des, and they're the two that I know from the founding team, are just incredible.

a16z, Anish Acharya: Is SaaS Dead? Do Margins Still Matter? Why We Are Not in an AI Bubble? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 9, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 45:09 Harry Stebbings So you're saying that, like, the length of the start line, as Dez Trainer at Intercom says, like, it takes a very long time to build, like in Figma.

20Growth: The Death of Growth Teams? | How Hubspot Use AI to Triple Email Conversion | The Future of AI SEO | Why Prompt Engineering is the New Coding | What Every CMO Needs to Know About AI in 2025 Jul 11, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:06:57 unnamed speaker I always think to Desno and at Intercom, when I think about agency to startup, and it just gives you unleveled customer insight to product building.

Figma’s IPO: The Full Breakdown & Why Melio’s $2.5BN Acquisition is “Discouraging” · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 3, 2025 · 2 mentions

Benchmark vs a16z: Why Stage Specific Firms Win · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 8, 2025 · 1 mention

George Sivulka, Co-Founder & CEO @Hebbia: The Future of Foundation Models | E1250 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 22, 2025 · 2 mentions

Daniel Khachab: "We Are in the Middle of a Cold War for AI Talent" | E1220 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 28, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 28:47 Harry Stebbings Okay, so first off, I actually interviewed Des Treynor quite recently from Intercom, actually at like an internal Intercom event, and he was like, I'm not going to do his accent because I suck at an Irish accent, but he was like,…

Eoghan McCabe, CEO @Intercom: Freedom of Speech, Censorship and Government Control | E1213 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 11, 2024 · 1 mention

Mike Hudack: How Facebook, Monzo and Deliveroo Build Great Products | E1201 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 13, 2024 · 4 mentions

Jeff Seibert: Why OpenAI Will Become an Infrastructure Play | E1085 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 22, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 34:31 Harry Stebbings What, what would you do if you, I asked Des Traynor this actually from Intercom, but what would you do if you were CEO of Google from here?

20VC: Why "Founder Insight" is Overrated, Why Big and Bold Product Visions Can Be Dangerous & Why Getting To Product Market Fit by Accident Can Lead to Danger with Hubert Palan, Founder & CEO @ ProductBoard Jan 29, 2021 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 36:02 Hubert Palan Des Treynor is an angel, the more traditional angel, and I learned so much from him about product strategy, the co-founder of Intercom, so I would, I would mention him. 3 times in the scene

20VC: Intercom Founder, Eoghan McCabe on How To Deal with the Weight of Expectation, Having Your Identity Tied To Your Company, How To Be Your Authentic Self Even with Stakeholders & Why There Are No Rules Oct 22, 2020 · 1 mention

20VC: The 4 Phases of Effective Decision-Making, The No 1 Quality of Good Decisions, How To Approach Effective OKR Setting, & How To Optimise and Improve Your Operating Cadence with Shishir Mehrotra, Founder & CEO @ Coda Sep 25, 2020 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 0:42 Harry Stebbings With that, I do want to say a huge thank you to Daniel at Spotify, Quentin Clark at GC, Sridhar at Neva, and Dez Trainer at Intercom for some fantastic questions and suggestions today.
  • ▶ 31:18 Shishir Mehrotra Mine is heavily driven by a thing I read from, do you know Des Trainor over at Intercom? 4 times in the scene
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