Our President and Co-Founder, Eoghan McCabe, sat down to chat with Harry Stebbins on the Twenty Minute VC Podcast to discuss his startup journey and the lessons he learned while creating Intercom. In a wide-ranging conversation, Eoghan explored the Latest Mailing Database complex nature of ambition, the role of self-doubt in creating our drive to succeed, and the crucial role of authenticity in leadership. Listen to the episode below, or if you're short on time, here are some of Eoghan's key insights. What was the motivation to create Intercom? Eoghan and his co-founders saw an opportunity to help online businesses easily and efficiently connect with their customers. How did this journey start? “A story like so many others, the young boy has big dreams.
A chip on his shoulder, sets out to prove himself. I don't know if there is much more than that. I've always had a passion for building and creating and was so excited about the internet's promise for creativity, connection and commerce. And with Intercom, I saw an opportunity to Latest Mailing Database help online businesses connect more easily and efficiently with their customers, and have a lot more fun doing it. So that was what Intercom was originally, and still is today. Our mission was to personalize internet business, and we created this little messenger, Recognize the role of self-doubt Like so many entrepreneurs, the drive to succeed comes from the tension between self-doubt and self-confidence – but in the end, the things we strive for may not offer a resolution to self-doubt.
What do we mean by chip on your shoulder? It means that you think something is missing in you. It's a lack of self-esteem. It's a feeling that you're not good enough and that you have to Latest Mailing Database own or achieve something to be lovable or popular or safe or whatever. Often a product of our upbringing and conditioning, the environment we grew up in and the experiences we have had. One thing we do for healing is we try to achieve these external things – I don't know if it's money or status or achieving something to prove yourself. The mundane and clichéd lesson is that we discover that this is not at all what we needed, that everything we needed was within us. But you kind of have to go on this journey, you kind of have to prove yourself wrong before you can do the hard work.