Yang: Intercom has 17,000 customers while ManyChat has 20,000 connected bots
Mikael Yang · #1453 The future of chat (and interacting with your customers) · May 26, 2017 · at 1:02:25
Mikael Yang, founder and CEO of ManyChat, contrasts vanity bot counts with paid customer metrics learned during 500 Startups.
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“Inter, Intercom has, like, 17,000 customers, and we already have over 20,000 bots connected to the platform.”
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