
Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor built a customer-service company that bills per resolution, not per seat. Two years in, it is worth $15.8 billion and runs support for 40% of the Fortune 50.

A conversational AI company from Stavanger now runs 600+ live virtual agents across 450+ organizations - and it is competing for enterprise deals against Uniphore, Intercom and Five9.
Two AI customer service companies took very different exits from the same stretch of the agentic-AI boom. One raised nearly a billion dollars at a $15.8B valuation; the other got folded into a bigger machine. The split says a lot about where enterprise AI is heading.