Dharmesh Shah: Ideas for Building Better Software Businesses

Dharmesh builds on his 2008 talk and tells us how to build better software businesses at BoS USA 2009. Enjoy.

Dharmesh Shah
Dharmesh Shah

Dharmesh Shah

Dharmesh Shah is co-founder and CTO of HubSpot, the NYSE listed inbound marketing platform with a market cap of over $7 billion and $590 million revenue in past year.

Prior to founding HubSpot in 2006, Dharmesh was founder and CEO of Pyramid Digital Solutions, which was acquired by SunGard Data Systems in 2005. Dharmesh is an active member of the Boston-area entrepreneurial community, an angel investor in over 60 startups, and writes about startups, inbound marketing, and company culture. Dharmesh holds a BS in Computer Science from UAB and an MS from MIT but learned everything he knows about the software business from his regular attendance at Business of Software Conference since the very first one!

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Online workshops

AI in Your Business: Where to Start Weekly · Tue & Thu · Cohort of 12 ⌄
📅 Every Tue & Thu 👥 Cohort of 12

Participants run the Bootstrap skill between sessions and arrive at Session 2 with a correction list. They leave with a bootstrapped OS, a revised CLAUDE.md, and a first focus area identified.

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Building Your AI Company Operating System 3 & 10 Jun · Cohort of 12 ⌄
📅 3 & 10 Jun 2026 👥 Cohort of 12 🗓️ 4 weeks

For founders already in motion, already using the tools, already tinkering. You’ve hit the ceiling that only a documented OS can break through. Over four weeks, co-facilitated by Tim Barker and Mark Littlewood, you’ll build one: CLAUDE.md, 5–8 strategy documents, one agent spec, and a Phase 1 mission.

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1-on-1 AI in Your Business: Where to Start Flexible scheduling ⌄
📅 Flexible scheduling 👤 One-on-one

Same two sessions, same material, one company: yours. You bring the context, we work through it directly. No cohort, no scheduling around others.

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Conference

BoS Conference attendees
In-person BoS Conference 2026
Date TBA ⌄
📅 Date TBA 📍 In-person

Two days with software founders and leaders who have actually built profitable businesses. No panels, no keynotes designed to impress. Talks that earned their place because the idea was worth the room’s time.

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