dharmesh
@dharmesh
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Co-founder/CTO, HubSpot. Mission: Help millions grow better. Write articles about startups, scaleups and growth at https://t.co/OOZjd773nV (free subscription).
Boston, MA
Joined March 2008
2023 was the year of chat UX powered by generative AI. That led to me hacking on ChatSpot and launching it last year. 2024 is the year of Agent AI, so that's what I've been hacking away late nights on. I'm obsessed with #AgentAI. Was up past 3am last night. I have a handful
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This is great advice for AI application builders: "go deep enough that a foundation model can’t care, and sticky enough that users won’t leave even when they can."
i’d say the opposite: the real white space is at the application layer. everyone wants to sell shovels, but the gold is in how people actually use them. the infra race is a knife fight between hyperscalers: openai, google, anthropic, meta, amazon. they’ll undercut each other
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This is Sequoia's pluses and minuses on me on their hiring memo. DGAF = Doesn't Give A F-ck. Hilarious that it is a plus and a minus for me.
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Really looking forward to this new podcast series by my friend and HubSpot co-founder, @bhalligan. He's a great interviewer -- and a great human.
“Startups are somewhere between completely impossible and very, very, very, very hard.” That's @parkerconrad, CEO of @Rippling, on the first episode of Long Strange Trip. Parker's got one hell of a story. Violently fired by David Sacks from Zenefits. Character assassinated in
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Since our 1999 investment in Google, Kleiner Perkins has long partnered with teams building the web’s core infrastructure. Today, we are co-leading Parallel’s $100M Series A with Index Ventures. Founded by Parag Agrawal, @p0 is building the web for agents. The platform provides
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I have been scratching my head for 4-5 hours trying to write the copy for new landing page we're building for Articos(writing copy is not something I am good at). ChatGPT randomly suggested me to use HubSpot's AI landing page copy generator and boy it was helpful! It asked me
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Woo hoo! Launching my latest project, the Company Research agent. Was going to launch it at 1am last night, but decided there was no reason to tempt the fates. It's an agent that lets you...umm...easily do company research. I built it for myself (to lookup startups and other
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It can be easy to underestimate what is necessarily to bring AI agents into the hands of most knowledge workers. This is actually good news because it directly correlates to the opportunity to build AI agents right now. This is the general arc of all new technologies, where
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The single most powerful lesson I ever learned being a CEO was this moment when I learned why I should never ask a binary question to any person on the team. I had gotten it wrong for years until this moment happened.
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+1 I lean into what I am so far, sometimes I almost fall over. :)
You should lean into what you are. That's what will give you strength, stamina, and something that others either lack completely, or are worse at, or it will cost them far more to do it. That's why it's a good strategy.
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Despite some of the popular fears that all AI agent use-cases could get sucked into a single platform, I'd argue the other side of this for the enterprise. AI agents, possibly more than any prior era of tech, need to have a relatively high degree of specialization per domain or
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google has a near term opportunity to push ai quality a lot further and disrupt iphone franchise
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Something that stunned me about @gigaml is they've moved away from the FDE playbook that's become the default for fast growing AI startups. Instead they've built AI to covert plain English from the customer into Python code to make the product work for their use cases i.e. an AI
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We shipped the Parallel Search API today. For use by agents, our API meaningfully outperforms products and technologies built over years and decades with substantial resources by very talented teams. Why?
Parallel’s Search API is state-of-the-art, winning on both accuracy and cost across a range of benchmarks.
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HubSpot adds Clara Shih, Meta's head of business AI, to board of directors
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HubSpot appointed Meta's head of business AI Clara Shih to its board of directors
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ok, I know I’m the biggest stan — but amongst many lessons I have learned from @gradypb is that cynicism/selfishness is for losers, and openheartedness is for winners. believing in the talented people around you, assuming good intent, playing for your team - it is often enough!
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This is an exceptionally good read for founders. #recommend.
I'm 24, dropped out of Duke, joined YC, and bet everything on a startup. Here's what actually happens when you go all-in: 1. Your co-founder relationship matters more than your product: You can pivot products. You can't pivot people. Most startups die from founder breakups, not
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Love this warm-hearted passing of the torch. Congrats, @gradypb. Sequoia has great taste in leaders.
With immense gratitude and appreciation for @roelofbotha and his legendary leadership over the better part of a decade, @Alfred_Lin and I are honored to accept the torch and become the next stewards of @sequoia Here is the note I shared internally:
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Have to hand it to the Cursor team, they are on 🔥! Love these quality-of-life improvements.
We've shipped several quality-of-life improvements to Cursor! Details below...
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