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A quick companion to the podcast, with the origin of the inbound insight and the counterintuitive calls laid out in five points. Good if you want the summary before committing an hour.
Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah: How They Built HubSpot
From HubSpot INBOUND by HubSpot (Guy Raz interview recap) Short read
- HubSpot deliberately skipped the Fortune 500 and built for startups and scale-ups instead.
- Halligan and Shah say all three of their big pivots were considered terrible ideas at the time.
- Their rule of thumb: you are onto a good idea if it is a little bit polarizing.
- Culture was not a stated priority in the first five years, then got the same rigor as product.