Episode description

On this episode of the Traction podcast, host Lloyed Lobo of Boast.AI welcomes Karen Peacock, CEO at Intercom which helps more than 25,000 companies including Amazon, Microsoft, and Shopify to engage and support their customers and prospects. Intercom has been named one of the top 100 private cloud companies globally by Forbes for five years in a row.

Before joining Intercom, Karen served as the Senior Vice President of Small Business at Intuit, where she helped build one of the world’s largest SaaS product lines and grew it to $2.5B in revenue.

On this episode, Karen shares her top five lessons learned in building and scaling businesses from $1M to $500M in recurring revenue. 

Specifically, Karen covers:

1:17 - Expanding your market for your next wave of growth

4:16 - What you should do if you receive a big check

7:31 - Building your next big product

10:05 - The most important question you can ask yourself

12:36 - Finding product market fit again and again

15:08 - Figuring out your platform play

17:38 - Building out your team and how to apply lean startup principles to hiring

Learn more at https://tractionconf.io

Connect with Karen Peacock: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karenpeacock/

Learn more about Intercom at  https://www.intercom.com/

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