How to Hire the Best Talent for Your Startup

If I can wave a magic wand and get the best people to stay forever, I would totally do that. But one thing we recognize is that pragmatically, if we are looking to hire, which I think most founders are, people that are entrepreneurially minded and creative and have that energy that you need in a startup in its early stages. If you're going to recruit those kind of people, you have to be prepared for the fact that they're not going to work for you forever, that they're going to want to likely someday start something on their own. So in all the kind of recruiting meetings that I've done, that's kind of been part of the pitch. And it's true, which is, You know, if you have a startup idea that's kind of burning a hole in your head, you should go do it, right? Like, we are completely supportive. Let us know if we can help. We'll look at investor decks and pitch decks and things like that. If you're entrepreneurial but you don't yet have an idea that you think is good enough for you to kind of devote your time to, spend some time at HubSpot. It'll be the equivalent of a startup MBA. You'll meet lots of cool people. You'll learn some things. You'll get exposed to a bunch of stuff that we're learning as we scale, and your odds of success will go up when you do start your startup. And that works well and has You know, part of our kind of pitch is we don't want to just build a great company in the Boston area. We want to build great entrepreneurs.