🎤 CEO Panel with G2, Chili Piper and Hotjar
Selling into the US for Startups: How to Bridge the Gap with Product, Platforms and Partnerships
It’s been six months since I joined HubSpot and I can honestly say I’ve never worked for a better company.
Two weeks ago I moderated my first CEO panel with Godard Abel, Nicolas and Alina Vandenberghe and Mohannad Ali. It was an amazing experience made better by meeting and filming in person in our Dublin office.
We filmed in the middle of HubSpot’s Bring Your Family to Work Day which featured 600+ kids running around our office - and to make it even more lively cocktail making classes. I told the speakers ahead of time - it promises to be very HubSpotty.
The event is evidence of another HubSpotty thing, a culture of cross-team collaboration with support from our amazing Startup, Sales, Marketing, Facilities, Academy, Internationalization, and Audio/video teams! I am in awe of the leaders who built this culture. Chapeau Brian Halligan, Dharmesh Shah, Yamini Rangan and Scott Brinker!
Our App Partnership team is building a platform for SaaS companies to integrate their software with HubSpot and provide valuable services to our 750,000 users. More than 50% of our revenue comes from outside North America so we help our partners access and accelerate their international growth. HubSpot users are engaged with their tools to do their job better. And they are modern - ready to try new tools and approaches to adapt and grow professionally.
In the CEO Panel, we discussed lessons learned and how they think about Product, Partnerships and Platforms. Excited to hear your feedback.
Register Now to Watch On-Demand:
https://offers.hubspot.com/startups/events/selling-into-the-us-for-startups
Meet the Speakers
Godard Abel - CEO & Co-Founder @ G2
CEO of G2, the world's largest and most trusted software marketplace, which he co-founded in 2012 — he previously built cloud CPQ pioneers BigMachines (acquired by Oracle) and SteelBrick (acquired by Salesforce).
Mohannad Ali - CEO @ Hotjar
Mohannad brings a decade of leadership experience to the company—before joining Hotjar in 2019, he was VP of Engineering at HelloFresh, and at Hotjar, Mohannad initially held the roles of VP and subsequently Chief Product and Technology Officer.
Alina Vandenberghe - Co-Founder & Co-CEO @ Chili Piper
Alina is passionate about building fun SaaS products to solve hard problems and a company where employees thrive. Today, the Romania native and her husband are on their way to IPO — all while giving back to the community through our Citizens Of Our Planet foundation. Alina earned a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from the Polytechnic University in Bucharest, Romania. She currently resides in New York City. Connect with Alina on LinkedIn.
Nicolas Vandenberghe - Co-Founder & Co-CEO @ Chili Piper
Nicolas and his co-founder and wife Alina bootstrapped Chili Piper in the 2016 — and the rest is history. A native of Paris, Nicolas has an MBA from Stanford University and a Bachelor’s in Mathematics from the prestigious French institution Ecole Polytechnique. When he’s not helping companies improve their inbound lead conversion process, you can find him enjoying champagne, traveling the world, or spending time with his two children. Connect with Nicolas on LinkedIn.
Russell Bradley-Cook -
HubSpot EMEA App Partner Manager
Russell is HubSpot's first EMEA App Partner manager. He helps SaaS companies reach a massive, engaged, modern, and global customer base at HubSpot. He has 15 years scaling revenue for start ups and billion dollar companies, signing clients like Google, JP Morgan, UberEats, OpenTable, Amundi, BNP, N26 and Pepsi. He lives in France and in his free time writes a sales and marketing blog and maps out the best coffee spots in Paris.
Register to listen here:
https://offers.hubspot.com/startups/events/selling-into-the-us-for-startups