Was a fun conversation last night about Building in Boston.
It had been a while since Brian and I were on a public stage together. (We see each other all the time and talk about some of these same topics -- just not in front of hundreds of people).
Jon Lai (@Tocelot)
huge thank you to Hubspot cofounders @bhalligan @dharmesh for a riveting chat on why there’s never been a better time to build a startup at Boston tech week!
A few of my favorite takeaways:
- Hubspot created a new category in marketing SaaS, there are similar opps for new category creation in AI today
- Most founders should aspire to be more ambitious - ex. Hubspot wanted to be the biggest company in Boston, let’s be the biggest in the world
- Finding distribution still remains hard - AI makes it easier to build but also increased noise. Hubspot was built around a distribution insight, and startups today need to find one too
- The nature of AI-native teams is changing - but hiring for strengths rather than lack of weakness still works
— https://nitter.net/Tocelot/status/2060006015647555848#m