
Built in 2004 by Quality Unit to fix its own inbox, LiveAgent now runs customer support for more than 40,000 companies from offices in Bratislava, Kyiv and New York - without a cent of venture money.

Two Slovak developers couldn't find a support tool they liked, so they wrote their own. Twenty years later LiveAgent handles customer service for 40,000 companies - and Quality Unit still hasn't taken a cent of outside money.

Four companies, four very different bets on how a business should answer its customers - from Oracle's enterprise heft to a bootstrapped help desk built in Slovakia.