Confessions of a Business Bot Builder: The Founder of a $1.75 Billion Company Who Still Writes Code

In 2006, Dharmesh Shah founded HubSpot with his friend and MIT classmate Brian Halligan. HubSpot provides inbound marketing and sales software to companies all over the world. By 2011, HubSpot was serving more than 5,000 customers, placing the company at No. 33 on the Inc. 500. But they didn’t stop there: In 2014, HubSpot went public and has a market cap of $1.75 billion.

Yes, billion with a “b.”

By any standard, Halligan and Shah are living the entrepreneurial dream. So why has Dharmesh been in, as he describes it, “mad scientist mode” for the last several months? He’s been working on what he says is one of the most ambitious projects he’s worked on in recent years: GrowthBot, a chatbot (digital assistant) for marketing and sales. GrowthBot was just released into public beta this week.

In short: What is the founder and

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