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Balfour: HubSpot grew by tracking user-level usage instead of account-level usage
“Like HubSpot, we had a customer, but we had multiple users on that, like customers account and to understand how to move, grow the business and how to grow the product. It actually wasn't about a usage metric at the customer level. It was about a usage metric …”
HubSpot's Sales Hub hit 100k WAUs before identifying severe user mismatch
“We got to, I don't remember, it was like maybe like a 100,000 weekly active users or something, and then we looked at the user base, and there was a huge mismatch between the types of used, a lot of the types of users that were being, that were showing up in t…”
Biggest CMO mistakes involve holding onto employees past their stage
“The biggest mistakes I have made is not hiring the right person or not knowing that I needed a person with a new level of skill set at that stage and scale of the company or holding on to somebody who was really good for that last stage of growth, but isn't go…”
HubSpot's blog still drives growing organic search traffic after 15 years
“I, my first job at HubSpot is I wrote the HubSpot blog. I wrote, I think we did like three posts a day for, you know, a year or whatever. And we did that to get organic search traffic. We're still doing that. We are. 14 years, 15 years into that blog grind and…”
HubSpot's internal media organization has grown to approximately 80 people
“I built at the kind of like media org within HubSpot. It's about 80 people now. We acquired the hustle, and so I kind of put all of that together”
Shah: HubSpot's 5,000 partners drove acquisition of 140,000 customers
“We have 5000 of them, but they're the ones that were the story consumers, and they're the ones that helped kind of spread the word to the other 140,000 people that are now customers.”
Shah: HubSpot launched its CRM product expansion one year before IPO
“And the year before the IPO is when we made this brilliant decision, like, oh, we're getting into CRM, right?”
Dharmesh Shah: Intuit was the only $10B+ SMB software company when HubSpot started
“Intuit's the only real example back then of a successful software company that was 10 plus billion dollars in market cap.”
Dharmesh Shah: HubSpot built its community prior to launching a product
“One of the things that I think HubSpot got right is that we were kind of builders of community well before we even had a product, right?”
Slack grew revenue from $100M to $1B during Herzberg's tenure
“Danny is a partner at Sequoia Capital, and prior to entering the world of venture, Danny spent four years at Slack, As their head of enterprise sales at Slack, Danny built and scaled the self-serve, mid-market, and enterprise sales orgs across the Americas, as…”