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Eoghan McCabe

Founders to Watch · Fall 2026

Eoghan McCabe

Co-founder and CEO

Intercom

Series B+ CX / support automation
Why watch McCabe pushed Intercom's Fin agent to the center of the company so customer experience can be won by AI that resolves work end to end.

Eoghan McCabe is co-founder and CEO of Intercom, the customer-messaging company he started in 2011 and returned to lead in 2022. Under his second chapter as CEO the company made Fin, its AI agent, the commercial center of gravity — and in 2026 rebranded the corporate entity as Fin while keeping Intercom as the help-desk product name.

Founding Intercom and the first CEO chapter

McCabe co-founded Intercom in Dublin to rethink how software companies talked to customers inside the product. He led the company through its rise as a messaging and help-desk platform, then stepped into a chairman role in 2020 before the board brought him back as CEO in 2022.

Fin-first Intercom

On his return he wrote publicly about focusing the company on AI that resolves support, not only assists agents. Fin became Intercom's flagship agent product; by May 2026 McCabe announced that the company itself would take the Fin name while Intercom remained the desk product customers already knew.

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