Again in the summertime of 2015, Antony Gorin and I co-founded ManyChat with a imaginative and prescient to rework how companies talk with their clients. We believed that messaging apps created a possibility to attach clients and companies in a radically new manner and convey the velocity, comfort, and interactivity of chat not solely to our private conversations but in addition to our conversations with manufacturers.
Seven years and billions of messages later, I’m completely satisfied to share that this imaginative and prescient got here to life. Our journey has led us from a naked bones product on Telegram – a chatbot for constructing chatbots with out an app or a web site – to integrating with Fb Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, SMS and constructing the main and strongest chat advertising and marketing platform on the earth. From being rejected by 40 traders whereas attempting to boost our seed spherical to elevating an $18M Sequence A from Bessemer Enterprise Companions. From two co-founders with $0 income to a rising enterprise with 150+ superb, proficient folks throughout the US, UK, and Armenia.
All of the credit score for ManyChat’s accomplishments goes to the ManyChat dream staff that has made this doable. Our staff are the true heroes that put their blood, sweat, and tears to pioneer Messenger Advertising, Move Builder, Hybrid Communication Mannequin, Instagram DM Automation, WhatsApp Advertising, Unified Buyer Profile, and different merchandise/innovations, lots of which have turn out to be trade requirements.
I need to take a second to thank the ManyChat staff and the broader ManyChat neighborhood for his or her resilience, power, and creativity that allowed them to adapt to a continually altering setting and thrive over time.
Right now, with ManyChat being break-even, well-funded, and with our latest channels like Instagram and WhatsApp rapidly rising, I need to take this chance to make a much bigger announcement.
After 7 years of working the present, I’ve determined to cross the torch to Sunny Manivannan, who joins ManyChat as CEO to drive the way forward for our impression and success.
Sunny is the right chief for ManyChat given his 10+ years of B2B SaaS management expertise, throughout which he has been part of two IPOs, first at Coupa and extra not too long ago at Braze. Sunny has a confirmed monitor report of constructing high-performing, cohesive groups, and I do know that he has the abilities and expertise essential to speed up ManyChat’s mission to rework how companies and clients talk all over the world.
Listed here are a couple of phrases from Sunny:
“From the primary time I met Mike, I knew that he and the staff had constructed a particular firm. I’m delighted to have the chance to assist ManyChat obtain its full potential within the coming years, and I’m excited for the work forward”.
As for myself, I’ll proceed to information ManyChat each strategically because the Chairman of the Board and operationally because the Head of Product to be able to make sure the success of this transition.
With the rising recognition and depth of utilization of chat functions, our imaginative and prescient is stronger than ever and now could be the right time to grab the subsequent frontier of this chance. With our unbelievable staff and Sunny main the corporate, we are going to carry the ability of chat not solely to the subsequent million SMBs but in addition to the largest worldwide manufacturers making billions of buyer conversations extra interactive, participating, and enjoyable.
I elevate this glass to ManyChat’s success! 🥂
Thanks,
Mike Yan
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