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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. In this top-rated session Dharmesh Shah, cofounder and CTO of HubSpot, shares how he and his co-founders broke all of the “rules” and ended up creating an entirely new category of marketing software.

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Founder’s Guide to Scaling Applications: When to Build, When to Buy and What Breaks by Algolia Co-founder (Video + Transcript)

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The reason we did this, we took this decision is because of our bet on the market. Like search engine are very intensive in term of CPU versus the memory. So we had to pretty much select a very specific machine, very specific hardware to make sure we have the best performance of the market. Is it realistic?

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