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Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot: From Day 0 to IPO. What Went to Plan. What Most Certainly Didn’t (Video, Podcast + Transcript)

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In 2016, Hubspot was still a scrappy player that had only recently IPO’d, with a market cap around $1B. “From Day 0 to IPO: What Went to Plan, What Most Certainly Didn’t” at SaaStr Annual 2016 from saastr. And grab the best deal ever on 2021 Annual tickets here ). Hubspot today is a $23B juggernaut.

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Engineering Your Own “Luck”: The 3 Key Rules of Building Globally Distributed Teams with Eventbrite (Video + Transcript)

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We’ve been a company since 2016. I started right at the end of 2011, and I started in the role of VP of engineering. Every year, 15% of our engineers who were in the company left the company to go do something else; Startups, go to Facebook or Google, whatever it was they left for.