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Dharmesh Shah: HubSpot's first six hires were all men from MIT
“The first six hires, all men, all from the exact same school, same program, had the same, not necessarily the same graduating years, but just in that little cluster.”
Dharmesh Shah: HubSpot's original marketing software product reached over $1B ARR
“HubSpot started in the marketing software business. And about, I'll say maybe seven years in we decided that, okay, well, we have marketing software, and we loved it. We loved the category. It was growing and that product now is over a billion dollars in ARR”
Shah: Wordplay.com Has Reached Six Million Players
“Now it has six million players. It's called wordplay.com.”
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.”
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?”