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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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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. There are rules in starting an enterprise software company. In 2016, Hubspot was still a scrappy player that had only recently IPO’d, with a market cap around $1B. A SaaStr Classic!!

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Lucidchart and Wrike — February 28, 2020

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As for Karl, prior to founding the company he spent 6 years at Google in some fascinating roles including Head of Patents, Head of Business Development in China and running Google’s energy investments. How does one know when we need to hire generalists vs specialists? How does Karl structure the hiring process today? What works?