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McCabe: SF Freedom Club had 3,700 waitlisted applicants and 500 attendees
“The San Francisco Freedom Club is designed to hold only epic parties four times a year for people to love freedom and all these other values. We got 3.7 thousand people on the wait lists. We invited 600 people. 500 showed up.”
McCabe: A 'chip on your shoulder' stems from a lack of self-love
“What do we mean by chip on your shoulder? It means you think there's something lacking in you. It's a lack of self-love. It's a sense that you're not good enough. And that you need to possess or achieve something to be lovable or popular or safe or whatever it…”
McCabe: Tying identity to professional titles creates limiting ego traps
“Getting stuck on to and associated with these images that then become limiting.”
McCabe: Kleiner Perkins partner Ilya Fushman is his favorite board member
“I loved working with Ilya Fushman. He's with Kleiner Perkins these days. Ilya was always just real. I'm a stickler for integrity and authenticity, and Ilya was what he was and is what he is, and There was no games. It wasn't hard to figure out, and I admired t…”
McCabe: Intercom never ran a formal fundraising process
“I never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever ran a process. I never ran a process.”
McCabe: Intercom has 30 ML engineers building its Finn AI agent
“Like I said, with Finn, our AI agent, it's the product of over a hundred different experiments. Many patented parts. We've got 30 ML engineers and counting, you know, a hundred other engineers working on all the application components.”
McCabe: Intercom's total customer count is growing rapidly again after shrinking
“Our total customer count started to shrink. It's now growing very rapidly again after the changes I made, but it started to shrink.”
McCabe: Intercom created 'Project 52' giving the company one year to reinvent itself
“I set this project called project 52, where I gave us 52 weeks to reinvent the company.”
McCabe: Biz Stone was Intercom's most helpful angel investor
“I think it's Biz Stone, who's one of the Twitter founders invested in. And the reason he was so helpful was that for a young lad, I was 26 when I started Intercom and moved to San Francisco. For a young lad in this big industry who really thought very little o…”