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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

I’m going to skip by my life story, and how I grew up as a small child in India, and how the dusty streets influenced my take on unit economics, and SaaS subscription models. This is the revenue growth for HubSpot leading up to the IPO. The issue the SMBs had was, “Well, I’m a 20-person consulting company.

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10 Years In Tech

Outseta

I can assure you that most people in the tech industry spend countless hours thinking about how to make this happen, investing only a fractional percentage of time thinking about their impact. Hopefully jack up your growth rate enough to be acquired for a massive sum of money.