Dan Martell - November 14, 2023


This is why you need to focus on the foundation

Hosted by
Dan Martell
How I Got My Supercars How to find top talent for your business

Episode Stats


Length

35 seconds

Words per minute

249.3

Word count

148

Sentence count

5


Summary

Summaries generated with gmurro/bart-large-finetuned-filtered-spotify-podcast-summ .

In this episode, I talk about how important it is to have a solid foundation in order to continue the growth of a company like HubSpot. I also talk about the importance of having a solid product foundation, and how this is the foundation for a company to continue to grow.

Transcript

Transcript generated with Whisper (turbo).
Hosts, guests, and mentioned names generated with spaCy (en_core_web_sm), reconciled against Wikidata.
00:00:00.000 A lot of these city engineers, they can literally go into a city, see all the cranes, and based
00:00:05.060 on the foundation, they can tell you to the floor how big this building's going to be.
00:00:08.560 We need to work on our foundation sometimes.
00:00:11.040 Back in the day, HubSpot, Dharmesh, the founder, he came to our office, we were talking, and
00:00:15.340 they made a decision to stop growing 50% a year, to go down to the 20%, to build the
00:00:20.760 right product, to then go back and continue the chart.
00:00:24.020 Had they not, they would have fell under their own weight.
00:00:26.260 What did they do, like 19 billion last year?
00:00:28.160 And if you look at their revenue growth, you can see where they decided we're going to be product, we're going to fix it, we're going to get the foundation right, and then we can continue marching.