Dharmesh Shah

“That is correct. 7,000 plus employees? Exactly zero direct reports from time, T equals zero.”

“It was actually 15 plus million dollars, but I had kind of stated eight figures, but... well, yes.”

“Undisclosed amount, yeah. And more than that, I'll just say that.”

“That is once again true. It's still true.”

“Anyway. And that's a long way of saying if I can get up on a public stage and learn that particular skill, anyone can learn just about anything. It just comes down to practice and measurement and just...”

“So anyway, that's the calculus I go through, "Is this useful enough to enough people where it's worth the calories of making it non-solo ware, making it even micro-ware?" I just made that up, but yeah...”

“I appreciate other people that have it. I don't. And so I get all the upside with very little of the downside of scale, and that's what kind of keeps me engaged and energized and happy at HubSpot. So ...”

“Yeah, it's amazing what you can get away with in terms of shaping the universe to your liking. I think people automatically assume that things have to go a certain way, especially founders and first t...”

“So, we had that transparency and then as we go public, we have this meeting with our investment bankers and our lawyers. This is in the IPO prep process, and they sit down and as part of this all day ...”

“At the time, it was no title. And now we have classic titles, so we have levels of things and-”

“I'm trying to think back. It's a long time ago. I want to say probably the first year, year and a half.”

“Yeah. Well, the actual law is within a closed system, entropy increases over time.”