Short excerpt from a YouTube interview (Jason M. Lemkin, Aug 5, 2023) where HubSpot's co-founders describe starting the company with a "chip on their shoulders." They emphasize being philosophically aligned on ambition (aiming for high upside), liking SMB and Web 2.0 at the time, and using decision-making heuristics that favor the more ambitious option when facing forks in the road.
So one of the big decisions was around like the reason we're starting HubSpot is like we both had a bit of a chip on our shoulders and so a bunch of things flow from that. Right. They weren't even discussions we had to have because we've already decided that we're swinging for the fences and anytime there's a fork in the road, we're going to go for the more ambitious higher beta people.
They don't do that enough. Right. And you are aligned on all those points, including the 50?
Well, otherwise we would have started the company if we had not been aligned on those things.
Philosophically well aligned. We both liked SMB at the time. Web 2.0 was a huge thing and we wanted to do something in Web 2.0.
You should tell them about our decision making. Heuristic, the mechanism.
Yeah. First of all, you want to know how he met Dharmesh. Okay.
