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Lemkin: HubSpot is approaching $2B in ARR
“Hubspot is coming up on two billion dollars in ARR growing at an incredible rate.”
Shah: HubSpot web properties receive 30 million visitors per month
“Just the blog, you know, thirty million across all the web properties that we have.”
Halligan: HubSpot generates half of its revenue through agency partners
“We got about half her business through partners”
Halligan: Over half of HubSpot's leadership and board are female
“Half of HubSpot's leadership team, more than half are female, and more than half of the board is females”
Lemkin: HubSpot's revenue growth accelerated after passing $1 billion
“And actually HubSpot has accelerated after a billion in revenue, which is pretty, if you think about where we were, it's pretty crazy.”
Shah: HubSpot founders debated exit and burnout scenarios before launching
“The week before we actually officially found the company, we went through this kind of series of really hard questions that we kind of asked each other.
It's like, okay,
so what do we want out of this?
What if next year someone comes offering fifty million, a …”
Halligan: HubSpot's podcast network receives 9 million monthly downloads
“The new one is our podcast. That's nine million downloads a month.”
Halligan: HubSpot only holds roughly 4% market share in CRM
“And we feel like we're really early, like our market share is like four percent.”
Benfer: Refuses to open sales emails unless they are personalized
“I get so much Robotic email every single day, and you can just tell it is a sequence that they copy, paste, pump out, and I don't open anything unless it's personalized.”
Lemkin: HubSpot took a long time to reach 100% NRR
“HubSpot is an iconic company for larger SMBs, right? Iconic, right? But it took them quite a while to get to a hundred percent NRR, ok? It took them quite a while.”
The vast majority of HubSpot's agency partners sell HubSpot exclusively
“The vast majority are selling. They're not selling Salesforce and dynamics in Adobe. They're selling HubSpot and servicing HubSpot, but you know, I'd say 10% of them and some of the bigger ones support all of them.”
Slack generated over half its revenue from enterprise at $1B ARR
“Slack. We know the majority of the revenue is they crossed a billion hub spots at a billion, right? As they crossed a billion, more than half their revenue became enterprise.”
Mid-market HubSpot customers integrate roughly 20 other software applications
“Most of our HubSpot customers now, decent sized customers, will have about 20 other applications plugged into HubSpot.”
Bonnici: HubSpot launched its Japan blog 3 years before hiring sales
“When I was looking at APAC marketing for HubSpot, I think about three years before we started, before we hired a salesperson for Japan, we launched the Japanese HubSpot blog.”
Lemkin: HubSpot took five years to build sales CRM awareness
“He was talking about how it took him five years to build awareness for their sales CRM.”
Shah: 60% of early HubSpot customers used spreadsheets instead of CRMs
“Well, exactly. And in terms of if you just count companies using CRMs, the other 60% were not using what would be designated an actual CRM. They were using Google spreadsheets or something else or they just didn't do it.”
Shah: Surveys still mislabel HubSpot as marketing software five years post-CRM
“So we're five plus years in the launch of HubSpot CRM. And to this day, when we do unaided surveys and we talk to people, it's like, oh, what do you think HubSpot is? A troubling number of times, the answer still comes back as, oh, a marketing software company…”
HubSpot required new sales reps to build websites before pitching products
“Literally every sales rep spent two full weeks in a classroom building their own website, understanding what it feels like to be in a small business owner's shoes, and then the sales process would take three, four, up to five calls before you connect the dots …”
Halligan: HubSpot merged its chat and coaching teams to cut customer handoffs
“We had an ISC organization.
That ISC organization was the organization that responded to chats on the website,
Inbound phone calls.
Of which, of both, there's a lot.
And then we had a coaching organization.
What the coaching organization did is if you're a fre…”
Halligan: HubSpot's revenue splits evenly across small, mid-market, and enterprise tiers
“We have three segments at HubSpot. Small, which is two to 20 employees. Medium, 20 to 200 employees. And large, 200 to 2000 employees. And the revenue split about even across the three.”
Cohen: I have zero direct reports at WP Engine, like HubSpot's Dharmesh
“And now I have zero direct reports, just like Dharmesh at HubSpot.”
Burke: HubSpot's wiki once declared it would never hire a CPO
“We actually have a storied wiki post at HubSpot that actually made a declaration that we would never, ever, ever in the history of the company have a chief people officer.”
Shah: Leaders must communicate culture incessantly despite employee fatigue
“The first rule of Cultural Club, you do talk about culture. Second rule of culture club. You talk about culture incessantly. You can't stop talking about culture. It's going to be painful. It's going to be painful. If your team yells, it's like, stop. We get i…”
Roberge: HubSpot tracked cohort usage across 17 product features for accountability
“We were just as data oriented with how we measured the product team. And so, in the same way that we had the analysis of how our sales reps were performing and their leads and their opportunity creation and their closes, We had the 17 features in the HubSpot p…”
Roberge: HubSpot held monthly executive 'mini boards' to review team retention
“On a monthly basis, we had a full day meeting where each one of those leadership teams came in for an hour and presented to the mini board. And the mini board was our CEO, our CFO, our head of sales, our CMO, you know, and we were the ones asking them, hey, wh…”
Lemkin: HubSpot reached a $1.7 billion revenue run rate in 2022
“And then fast forward today, we're at 1.7 billion dollar run rate last quarter.”