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Michael Fester

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Building @14__ai: Customer support for 1000x teams (YC W24) https://t.co/PqFFXPtN22

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Michael Fester
3 months
Today, we’re announcing @14__ai, the Cursor for customer support. Customer support is evolving fast. The old model - humans triaging queues in clunky ticketing systems - doesn’t scale. And slapping an AI layer on top of legacy tools doesn’t cut it anymore. We can do so much
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Marie Antoinette learned the hard way what bad customer support feels like. Your customers ask for bread. You tell them to eat cake. You lose your head. Listen to your customers.
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Michael Fester
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Poker night for founders. What could go wrong?
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Michael Fester
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happy 14th, intercom. grandpa’s still got it.
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Michael Fester
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What’s it like starting a company with your life partner?. Is this our board meeting or Sunday brunch?. For us, it’s been one of the best decisions we’ve made. We’re deeply aligned on values, ambition, and what we want to create in the world. And we’re incredibly
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Michael Fester
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The original AI agent. Never forget. If you get this reference, you qualify for the “back in my day” discount
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Michael Fester
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Early-stage founders know they should stay close to customers. Listen deeply. Ask questions. Understand their pain. But there’s a trap: building everything customers ask for. It feels like you’re being responsive. In reality, you end up with five different products for five.
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Michael Fester
10 days
Last week I gave a talk at the Support Driven conference in Las Vegas. As a newcomer in a space dominated by Zendesk and Intercom, I didn’t expect a packed room. Customer support conferences have usually been about metrics like ticket deflection rates and CSAT scores, not topics
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Michael Fester
11 days
RT @marieschneegans: Lately I’ve been dealing with something I never thought I’d have to: paparazzi showing up to my house. I don’t know w….
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Michael Fester
11 days
Being a second-time founder is a completely different game. As a second-time founder, I’m more patient with the process and more ruthless with decisions. I don’t confuse activity with progress. I don’t chase complexity. And I’ve learned that the hardest part isn’t building the.
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Michael Fester
12 days
Does anyone else’s team mates show up at the office (and my house) like it’s a laundromat?. At least the swag stays clean, I guess. @maya_czn 😅
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Prompts for customer support agents have a tough job. They don’t just need to produce a useful answer, they need to do it consistently, in a way that reflects your brand voice, policies, and evolving company knowledge. For every customer inquiry, however formulated. That means.
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Michael Fester
15 days
Totally underestimated Great Wall of China’s security
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Michael Fester
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RT @realsohamparekh: Effectively immediately, I will no longer write a TS application without @EffectTS_ . @michaelfester first introduced….
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Michael Fester
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I’ve been telling people, @EffectTS_ will make you crazy productive. Case in point:.
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Effectively immediately, I will no longer write a TS application without @EffectTS_ . @michaelfester first introduced me to it and it's made my life so much better since.
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Michael Fester
16 days
We talk to customers everywhere. And when I say everywhere, I mean in the back seat of an Uber in Vegas.
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Michael Fester
17 days
POV: the AI agents are coming.
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Michael Fester
18 days
Just wrapped up my talk in Vegas about prompt engineering for customer support. We covered how LLMs actually work, how to structure system prompts, and how to keep AI agents from confidently making up policies your company’s never heard of. And because it was Vegas, I’m
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Michael Fester
19 days
Landing in Vegas as a French person is wild. Step out of the cab, see the Eiffel Tower, think: “Finally… home.”. Then you smell the air, realize the Seine’s been replaced by a Bubba Gump Shrimp, and Spider-Man is screaming at you in 105°F heat. The @14__ai team's in town for
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