Sequoia Partner Brian Halligan says AI startup founders should consider doing larger raises now to help them stay afloat if an AI bubble bursts. He joins Caroline Hyde on "Bloomberg Tech."
Founder of HubSpot, Inc., Brian Patrick Halligan currently is Chairman & Chief Executive Officer at this company and President & Director at Performable, Inc. (a subsidiary of HubSpot, Inc.).
In the past Mr. Halligan held the position of Partner at Longworth Management Co., Inc., Senior Vice President-Sales at PTC, Inc. and Vice President-Sales at Groove Networks, Inc.
He received an undergraduate degree from the University of Vermont and an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management.
HubSpot, Inc. provides a customer platform that helps businesses grow better. It delivers seamless connection for customer-facing teams with an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered platform that includes engagement hubs, a smart customer relationship management product (CRM), and a connected ecosystem with over 1,700 app marketplace integrations, a community network, and educational content. Its engagement hubs include Marketing Hub, Sales Hub, Service Hub, Operations Hub, content management system Hub and Commerce Hub, that enable companies to attract, engage, and delight customers throughout the customer lifecycle. The Smart CRM is the foundational layer that combines customer data with AI to power the entire customer platform with unified customer profiles and tools to manage and govern team and business processes. It focuses on selling to mid-market business-to-business (B2B) companies. It also offers B2B subscription billing management and configure, price, quote (CPQ) solutions.
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