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Traditional SaaS companies that do not leverage AI technology will likely fail or be completely upended.
HubSpot generates over $2.5 billion in revenue and is growing at a rate of over 20%.
In the first weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, HubSpot's customer churn increased by 200% in a single week.
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, HubSpot cut the price of its starter product by over 75%, moved paid features to its free tier, and created a $20 million customer relief fund.
In 2021, HubSpot's internal net new ARR growth rate reached approximately 85% on a base of over $1 billion.
AI is expanding the total addressable market for software by a factor of 10x by automating labor and work, not just software tasks.
The price of foundational AI models is dropping by a factor of 10x every year.
HubSpot currently employs 9,000 people and has a market capitalization of approximately $30 billion.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Zoom's revenue growth rate of 350% far outpaced HubSpot's 80% growth rate.
For the past 20 years, the average salesperson has spent only 25% of their time in front of customers, a figure that improves to only 27% with optimal systems and operations.
Axon, a $60 billion public company, has a 99% market share of all tasers in the United States.
Axon's public cloud data footprint from its body cam product is larger than that of Netflix and Snapchat combined.