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Lemkin: Gorgias AI replaces 50% of agents, but ACV rises only 50%
“When I look at Gorgias, which is, which dominates Shopify for the contact center, right? They're, they have, their average customers replaced 40 to 50% of their humans with AI, and their ACV is only up 50%.”
Jason Lemkin Jun 12, 2025 ▶ 56:06 Elon’s Empire: SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink After the Storm & Anduril’s $2.6BN Power Move · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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No SaaS firm Cabane advised reached $50M ARR on a single channel
“And I have never seen a companies I've worked with, neither at Segment or at Drift, Gorgias, or Ram, and not in one of the companies I engage with, where we were able to get to fifty million on one channel. Not one.”
Guillaume Cabane Nov 29, 2023 ▶ 46:09 Guillaume Cabane: Why Your First Growth Hire Should Be a Former Founder | E1088 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Lemkin: Gorgias AI Customer Support Automation Averages 20% Across 20,000 SMBs
“If you go into an app like gorgeous, where I'm on the board, where there's 20,000 customers using AI for SMB support, there's literally a slider and you can dial how much support AI you want from zero to a hundred. Okay. No matter what anybody says on X, And L…”
Jason Lemkin May 15, 2025 ▶ 33:46 OpenAI, SBF & Perplexity: What VCs Know That You Don’t · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Lemkin: Only Two of 20,000 Gorgias Customers Automate 100% of Support
“And out of 20,000, they have a handful of folks that are at a hundred, like Klarna... Two. Two, one, 200.”
Jason Lemkin May 15, 2025 ▶ 34:09 OpenAI, SBF & Perplexity: What VCs Know That You Don’t · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Lemkin: Gorgias' WhatsApp AI agent reached double-digit usage in weeks
“I invested years ago in a company called Gorgias, which is a little over a hundred million, which used to be So e-commerce support. Now it's an AICX, right? And they launched their agent in WhatsApp that anybody can uses and text, and it's already double digit…”
Jason Lemkin Sep 10, 2026 ▶ 6:14 Jensen Huang Declares AGI Has Arrived | Tesla Launches Cybercabs | Index Pulls Out of Town
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Gorgias contacts its entire TAM of 200,000 merchants at least quarterly
“If you look at their total adjustable market, we're talking of a couple 100,000 merchants in the US and Europe. Right? That's the market. By now, they touch each of those merchants at least once a quarter. At least every single merchant at least once a quarter…”
Guillaume Cabane Nov 29, 2023 ▶ 20:54 Guillaume Cabane: Why Your First Growth Hire Should Be a Former Founder | E1088 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Gorgias' automated outbound campaign achieved a 10-12% response rate
“No, it's more like 10, 12%. 10, 12%, which is about five X the standard response rate of a good cold email.”
Guillaume Cabane Nov 29, 2023 ▶ 36:39 Guillaume Cabane: Why Your First Growth Hire Should Be a Former Founder | E1088 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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