Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedLenny Rachitsky: belief
4 Apr 2024 Lenny's Podcast Zigging vs. zagging: How HubSpot built a $30B company | Dharmesh Shah (co-founder/CTO)
“Before HubSpot, you founded two companies, but I think the more important fact there is you promised your wife you would not start another company before you started HubSpot and then you ended up and went on and started HubSpot.”
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- Speaker
- Lenny Rachitsky
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- Claim type
- belief
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- 4 Apr 2024
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
Transcript context
…And more than that, I'll just say that. Yeah, there was a profit, and I know you gave some money to charity and there's some promises you made where people commented on your LinkedIn post and you gave more money away, so it was awesome. Okay. Also, you're a billionaire? That is once again true. It's still true. Great. Also, you were born in a village in India that had no paved streets, no traffic lights, no hospitals. That is correct. Okay. Before HubSpot, you founded two companies, but I think the more important fact there is you promised your wife you would not start another company before you started HubSpot and then you ended up and went on and started HubSpot. Yes. I had promised her that I would not do start... I had to hang up the proverbial entrepreneurial hat. Best laid plans and all that. I met my co-founder in grad school, which is that I was going to... The plan was, "Oh, I'll go back to grad school and go find myself." And then the plan was to go eventually teach, not do another startup. But then I met my co-founder there and one thing led to another as these things go.…
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