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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)

SaaStr

Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. We have someone that probably 98 percent of you know virtually or socially in some sense, Dharmesh Shah, founder and CTO of HubSpot. But of course, it wasn’t always quite that big!

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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)

SaaStr

Julian Lemoine, Co-Founder, and CTO of Algolia will share his lessons learned on how to stay focused and innovative as you scale while also avoiding the innovation for innovation’s sake pitfalls. Julien Lemoine | Co-founder and CTO @Algolia. So I’m Julien, Co-founder and CTO of Algolia. Want to see more content like this?

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Product-Led Growth (PLG) For Startups

Mucker Capital

If you have a very complicated product–for example you sell AWS or you sell Snowflake–those are infrastructure products. If you're generating something that's brand new, like a brand new category, nobody understands about it. You need to invest at least a year or even two years. You need a lot of education.

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SaaStr Podcast #394 with Sunil Dhaliwal and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

Interesting for a couple reasons, but Sunil’s been investing in cloud internet since before almost anybody. So, not that many people have started so early in the career, so long in the space, and great investments that we know like Datadog and Fastly, and good at it. GP and founder of Amplify Partners. Jason Lemkin: Crazy.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Former Moveworks CIO and Lucidchart Co-Founder/CEO — December 13, 2019

SaaStr

And by business technology function I want to define that because sometimes there’s a overlap with the CTO from an engineering side. Is that a new innovation in org structures and the remit of the role? What would you advise in terms of that trade off of discount for testimonial versus no, we’re holding far more price?

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How to Build Happier Employees – Lessons From HubSpot’s CTO Dharmesh Shah and Chief People Officer Katie Burke

SaaStr

At SaaStr Annual we had a great session with HubSpot Founder & CTO, Dharmesh Shah, and their Chief People Officer, Katie Burke, on building happier employees. Also, don’t miss out on discounted prices for SaaStr Annual 2024 tickets. ” “I hated Katie at that company meeting, it was awful.”

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Simple Frameworks For Success (Full Video + Success)

OnStartups

Is your title CTO? Dharmesh: Yes, CTO. We're going to talk about why you invest in what you invest. And we're going to talk about, do you ever invest in non startup stuff? I don't know if you recall this Sam, that there was something that was said about VCs or investment or something. So this is Dharmesh.