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Shah: HubSpot won through an all-in-one suite, not a killer feature
“There was no killer app. Everything that we had in our product existed. There were better products with great companies behind them. The value that we brought was the fact that we made it simple for these SMBs to actually get into the internet, get in the game…”
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.”
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…”