Dharmesh will share three sets of big lessons he’s learned founding and building Hubspot to IPO and beyond.
- What did he think he knew when he started that turned out to be wrong?
- What did he think he knew that turned out to be more important than he foresaw?
- What were the biggest surprises that have changed the way he approaches business?
You will learn how entrepreneurs can evolve, adapt, develop and grow with their companies.

Dharmesh Shah
co-Founder & CTO, Hubspot
Dharmesh is a regular attendee at Business of Software Conference since it started in 2007 and has spoken on a number of occasions. His talks are always actionable, inspirational, amusing and thought provoking in equal measure as well as offering
Hubspot, the company Dharmesh co-founded in 2006, has grown over time to become a publicly listed company with over 1,000 employees, revenue approaching $200 million and a market cap that makes it a public unicorn. In this talk, Dharmesh shares some of the things he got right as a technical founder but more importantly, some of the mistakes he’s made that challenged his assumptions about how to grow a big ass software business.
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