How Pendo positions its in-app messaging against Intercom
Todd Olson · EP 614: Pendo Raises $31M Helping 200 Customers With In App Messaging To Drive Usage with CEO Todd Olson · Mar 30, 2017 · at 3:35
Todd Olson, CEO and co-founder of Pendo, compares Pendo's in-app messaging positioning with Intercom.
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“I think intercoms focuses more around being a next generation communication platform. Think of our in-app messaging more like campaigns, like let's launch a campaign to do guided tour when you log in. So onboarding, new feature announcements, those sorts of things are really more in our wheelhouse.”
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