why aren't all 6 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public
record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable
ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card:
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Halligan predicts inbound traffic will shift from Google to ChatGPT
“I think over the next five years, that's going to change a lot. I think Google's going to have to change a lot, and I think people are going to spend more and more of their time inside ChatGPT, and they're all ChatGPT's competitors.”
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Halligan: AI means billion-dollar companies won't need 500-person marketing teams
“I think you're going to see a lot more small, big companies, and you're going to be able to get a lot more done with a lot less people. I don't think in a billion dollar company, you're going to need three, four, 500 person marketing organizations.”
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Halligan: The average startup executive hire leaves within 18 months
“I would guess I coach tons of CEOs. On average for every director, VP, C-level person that's hired within 18 months, they're gone.”
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Halligan: HubSpot lost roughly 70% of its 1,000 customers in 2009
“And we lost, I remember, of the thousand customers we had in the beginning of the year, we lost like 700 of them, like just terrible churn rate in 2009.”
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Halligan: HubSpot has tracked quarterly employee NPS for 15 years
“But we continue to do that net promoter score once a quarter for the last 15 years. And we're tracking our net promoter score per quarter.”
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Halligan: Over 60% of HubSpot customer inbound traffic originates from Google
“If you look across our customers, that's 62, 63% of the inbound traffic is via Google, and most of it's organic.”