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🗓️ 13 June 2022
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Dharmesh Shah is the Founder and CTO @ Hubspot, a full CRM platform with marketing, sales, service, and CMS software. Dharmesh started Hubspot in 2006 and today it is a publicly-traded company (NYSE: HUBS) with over 3,500+ people and a market capitalization of $16.9 billion. Prior to founding HubSpot, Dharmesh founded Pyramid Digital Solutions, which he bootstrapped with less than $10,000 and after 11 years of CEOship, Dharmesh helped the company get acquired in 2005 by SunGard Business Systems. In addition to co-authoring “Inbound Marketing" Dharmesh founded and writes for OnStartups.com -- a top-ranking startup blog and community with more than 1,000,000 members. Finally, if all of this was not enough, he is an angel investor in over 90 startups, including Coinbase, AngelList, Gusto, Okta and many more. and a frequent speaker on startups, growth, and the business of technology.
1.) The Founding of Hubspot:
2.) The Culture Code:
3.) The 3 Kinds of Risk in Startups:
4.) SMB vs Enterprise:
5.) Angel Investing 101:
Dharmesh's Favourite Book: Les Miserables
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0:00.0 | Welcome to 20 VC with me, Harry Stebbings, and I'm so excited for this guest today. |
0:03.9 | I've been one of their biggest fans for a long time, and so I'm so thrilled to welcome |
0:07.4 | Darmesh Shah, found and CTO at HubSpot, a full CRM platform with marketing, sales, service, and |
0:13.9 | CMS software. |
0:15.0 | Now, Darmesh started HubSpot in 2006, and today it is a publicly traded company with over |
0:20.1 | 3,500 people and a market |
0:22.3 | cap of $16.9 billion as of today. Prior to founding HubSpot, Darmesh founded Pyramid Digital |
0:28.5 | Solutions, which he bootstrapped with less than $10,000, and after 11 years of CEO ship, |
0:34.1 | Darmesh helped the company get acquired in 2005 by Sungar Business Systems. In addition to all of this, Darmesh helped the company get acquired in 2005 by Sungar Business Systems. In addition to all of |
0:39.8 | this, Darmesh co-authored inbound marketing, Darmash founded and writes for On Startups.com as top |
0:45.8 | ranking startup blogging community with over a million members. And again, if all of this was not |
0:50.4 | enough, he's also an angel investor in over 90 companies, including Coinbase, AngelList, |
0:55.6 | Gusto, Octa, and I just want to say huge thank you. This schedule was a real team effort. |
1:00.0 | Danny Hursberg, Kieran Flanagan, Pat Grady, Jay Simmons and Ron Gill. Huge thanks for your amazing |
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