Again in the summertime of 2015, Antony Gorin and I co-founded ManyChat with a imaginative and prescient to remodel how companies talk with their prospects. We believed that messaging apps created a possibility to attach prospects and companies in a radically new method and produce the pace, 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 blissful 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 platform on the earth. From being rejected by 40 buyers whereas attempting to lift 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, gifted folks throughout the US, UK, and Armenia.
All of the credit score for ManyChat’s accomplishments goes to the ManyChat dream group that has made this doable. Our group are the actual heroes that put their blood, sweat, and tears to pioneer Messenger Advertising and marketing, Move Builder, Hybrid Communication Mannequin, Instagram DM Automation, WhatsApp Advertising and marketing, Unified Buyer Profile, and different merchandise/innovations, lots of which have turn into trade requirements.
I wish to take a second to thank the ManyChat group and the broader ManyChat group for his or her resilience, power, and creativity that allowed them to adapt to a always altering setting and thrive over time.
Right now, with ManyChat being break-even, well-funded, and with our latest channels like Instagram and WhatsApp shortly rising, I wish to take this chance to make a much bigger announcement.
After 7 years of operating the present, I’ve determined to move the torch to Sunny Manivannan, who joins ManyChat as CEO to drive the way forward for our influence and success.
Sunny is the proper 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 lately at Braze. Sunny has a confirmed monitor file of constructing high-performing, cohesive groups, and I do know that he has the talents and expertise essential to speed up ManyChat’s mission to remodel how companies and prospects talk around the globe.
Listed here are just a few phrases from Sunny:
“From the primary time I met Mike, I knew that he and the group 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 purposes, our imaginative and prescient is stronger than ever and now could be the proper time to grab the subsequent frontier of this chance. With our unimaginable group 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, partaking, and enjoyable.
I increase this glass to ManyChat’s success! 🥂
Thanks,
Mike Yan
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