Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah launched HubSpot in 2006 and since then the company has grown to a team of over 2000 people across 8 offices around the world, filed for an IPO in 2014, and achieved revenue of $375M in 2017. HubSpot Co-Founder & CEO Brian Halligan was recently in Helsinki and he stopped by the Advance B2B office for a fireside talk where he shared several lessons from his 12+ years in SaaS and building HubSpot, including: – A typical week in the life of HubSpot’s CEO – The 5 growth chapters of HubSpot and the evolution of B2B marketing & sales – The importance of building a gorgeous end to end customer experience and why SaaS is now a platform game – Challenges, mistakes and learnings from building HubSpot and things Brian would do differently now – How HubSpot has shifted from funnel thinking to flywheel thinking – The evolution of marketers and the importance of investing in your people
