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Q Well, did this other thing fail? Like, I mean, what got you off of the small business tool?
A Oh, right. Yeah. So it didn't fail at all. We hit our milestone, which was to rebuild the entire product, which was only built for WordPress at the time on the HubSpot infrastructure. So there's like a cloud version and a WordPress plugin. Um, so we got, we built that out with the team in Dublin, and then we actually got it announced on stage at Inbound as like a big product launch as well. Um, so when we left, it was in good hands. They knew what they were doing. There was another product manager who's working on it too. So we kind of like transferred all that knowledge that was in our heads into the heads of the team moving forward. Uh, and then we left to go start Tetra. So all is well. Very good.
AI assessment note: “So it didn't fail at all. We hit our milestone”
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Q That's funny. And was this a science fair project? I know Brian gave great detail when he came on the show about how they use science fairs to drive innovation. Was this a science fair project?
A Uh, so it's a HubSpot Labs project. So basically the way it worked is my first company with rentability was acquired. We'll be up front as a talent acquisition. So it did not get rich, but did okay for myself, especially for like, you know, a Invested all of his time and money into his first startup. Um, it was nice to have a job, too. That was a huge benefit, and I learned a ton of HubSpot. But, um, so Lead-In started in HubSpot Labs, and on my first day, they took me, put me with another person who had been working there for three years, who I also happened to be friends from middle school with, Nelson, and the then chief product officer at the time, David Cancel, who's the CEO of, sorry, David Cancel, proper pronunciation, uh, is the CEO of Drift. He was the product chief product officer at the time. And he, uh, just told us like, Hey, we want to build marketing software for like very small businesses that we don't normally sell. Do don't know what it should cost. Don't know what you do. Just make sure to use orange and the logo go. Um, so we worked on it. Just the two of us, Nelson and I for, uh, about a year grew to about 7000 small businesses using it and eventually got more funding, uh, which is like budget headcount inside of HubSpot. Uh, from Brian and Darmash and JD and all those people, um, to grow the team and build it out more.
AI assessment note: “Uh, so it's a HubSpot Labs project.”
