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Broshi: Generative AI leveled tech playing field against Salesforce and Zendesk
“In terms of technology, you had the exact same shot of succeeding as Salesforce or Zendesk, et cetera.”
Kausas claims Zendesk's customer experience deteriorated following its private equity acquisition
“Because they were acquired by private equity a year before, it was already starting to go downhill. Like already the experience was going downhill. Like people were not trusting it as much as they did.”
Pylon Reached $120K ARR by End of YC Batch
“In fact, by the end of our YC batch, we were at a 120 K in ARR, and so, like, turns out, like, people were buying Zendesk, they were buying Intercom, and it wasn't working because they did all their support in Slack, and so they literally were, in some cases, …”
Kausas: At least 12 startups tried Pylon's Slack support idea before them
“As far as we know, and we tried counting, we are the 13th company to start from the same starting point. There are, like, 12 other companies who have started with the, hey, like, add a tick and emoji to a message in a Slack channel, like, send it to Intercom o…”
Christoph Janz's first angel investment was a four-person Zendesk
“He has started investing as an angel investor. And he sent us an email saying exactly that. I've just become an email, an angel investor. I just invested in my first company, a company called Zendesk, which at that point was like four guys in Copenhagen. So hi…”