Eoghan McCabe
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first heard Oct 2024
last heard Oct 2024
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Vance did an outstanding job. I think he was like, he did a good job of being calm, collected, smart, empathetic, thoughtful, communicator.
It's true. You know, when I left Intercom, I left chiefly because I was sick, also because revenue started to slow, also because I was attacked in the press, and I was spiritually crushed, physically crushed, psychologically crushed. That process... What did you tell yourself when you had all of that shit happening? Not good things. Versions of like, am I a fucking loser? Like I fucked up.
And in doing so, when you go through a process like that, your ego is eviscerated. Your identity as whatever perfect little image that your ego wanted to create for yourself is by necessity burned. And so when you go through these processes, but then manage to survive it, what comes out the other side is a far more authentic person.
All these ideas of perfection can't possibly be held to be true anymore because they've been proven otherwise. So when I came back to Intercom, yeah, I felt so much more myself.
That's just helped me speak my mind, be authentic and real with people, create and curate the culture and environment that I believe will be successful and do so making no apologies and being okay with people being upset by it.
I have a lot to prove still. I'm still just a boy who was bullied in school and is trying to find love and validation. You know, tends to be the case for all founders. I've never met a founder that's really well balanced. You can't possibly imagine someone who is grounded and centered, part of a loving community, deeply at one with the universe, who then says,
I think I'll start a technology company. That doesn't exactly happen. Most people that start companies, they have so much to prove, big chips in their shoulder. To get to your question, if there's anything I'm ashamed of, it's that. I'm still trying to prove myself. That's what tends to give us our edge and that's what creates artists.
And I think the secret is not in fighting that, but learning to love that. And I've learned to love that.
Yeah. Well, I'll start with the SF commentary and where you framed it. SF is just a really, really, really, really fucking great place to get work done. It can be incredibly boring. Everywhere shuts at 10 or 11. People go to bed on time. Really great place to be productive. Great place to balance your nervous system in these stressful endeavors, getting out to nature.
It's not a place for sensuality and sexuality and excitement and connection. And so in part, I wanted to change that a little bit, but I wanted to do so under the guise of my mission to promote freedom and individual liberties and things like merit and capitalism and growth and humanity.
These American and Western values are under threat, but they're actually supported by the vast majority of people. People are so afraid to speak publicly about their support for such things. They're afraid that they'll be looked at as being the bad ones, that there's something wrong with them, that they're not cool, that they're not sexy. I believed that was untrue.
And so I felt like if I could get the masses wanting to be involved in a very fucking sexy, popular, fun thing, I could prove that these things were exactly those things. The San Francisco Freedom Club is designed to hold only epic parties four times a year for people who love freedom and all these other values. We got
Well, I'm not just going to move on post that one, am I? Like, can you unpack that for me? Yeah, I mean, the United States and Russia have many thousands of nukes pointed at each other, ready to go. And the United States is fighting a proxy war with Russia. It's super easy for these things to tumble into nuclear war. And if nuclear war happens, 5 billion people on the planet die.
read nuclear war scenario brand new book harrowing book do you think we'll see the middle east erupt into a no idea looks bad what book written before 1965 would you most recommend the only one that comes to mind is 1984 there's a theme in this whole conversation forgive me do you like freedom owned is that a thing for you Tell me, what blog post written post 2000 is your favorite?
I listen to interviews by smart people. I just want to listen to conversations by as many smart people as possible. That's why I love podcasts. Who, when you see their name, are you like, ooh, I want to listen? It's great because we're talking about, you know, national security and whatnot. I think Eric Prince is fascinating. He's the former Blackwater guy, Eric Prince.
That the LLMs are going to eat software. I don't think that's going to happen anytime soon. Who's your favorite VC? Apart from Harry Stebbing.
If I was raising a Series A or B, I really like Ilya Fushman at Kleiner Perkins. I think he's just got good intuition and he's just chill. He's just a natural. I really love Mamoun, who he works with also. Me and Mamoun have history. He invested in our Series A. Maybe it'd be Ilya.
And it's only because I have a firm and a hard, if not a cheesy answer. And that's by being truly yourself. I know very few leaders, even the most celebrated leaders today that are truly authentic. But the closer you can get to being yourself, the more powerful leader you'll be.
I appreciate it too. Thank you for having me, Harry. Really appreciate it.
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