| 1 | Jul 2, '25 | Last month, I was invited to speak at TEDx Boston. Exciting! On my list of things I wanted to do. Just one problem: There were only 12 days to prepare -- and most of those days I w | 212× | 7.7M | 7.5k | 137 | 1.3k |
| 2 | Mar 6, '23 | I've been furiously coding away every night on a new project. Thrilled I can finally share it with you. ChatSpot is something I built for myself. Check out the launch video: It's t | 128× | 4.7M | 11k | 805 | 1.9k |
| 3 | Apr 5, '24 | It's never too early to plant the seeds of simplicity in your company. Start with the simplest possible thing that could work, and then see what happens. You will have to fight for | 64.7× | 2.4M | 6.6k | 370 | 455 |
| 4 | Apr 13, '24 | Some of the biggest breakthroughs I've had are when seemingly random "dots" in my life ended up connecting in delightful and unexpected ways. It's why I love this quote from Steve | 37.9× | 1.4M | 14k | 968 | 875 |
| 5 | Apr 4, '24 | How do you pick the right idea for YOU? Four things to consider: 1) Potential for the idea. If successful, what's the outcome? 2) Probability of success. What are the odds? 3) Pass | 36.1× | 1.3M | 4.6k | 294 | 751 |
| 6 | Nov 6, '24 | BREAKING NEWS: Secret acquirer of $15+ million domain chat .com revealed and it's exactly who you'd think. For those of you that have been following me for a while, you may recall | 34.7× | 1.3M | 3.9k | 277 | 1.1k |
| 7 | Apr 24, '24 | tl;dr: Woo hoo! HubSpot has some MAJOR product updates we're spotlighting today. Trust me, THIS IS BIG. HubSpot was built with the spirit of reinvention. We started as a simple set | 31.9× | 1.2M | 3.3k | 280 | 172 |
| 8 | Apr 13, '23 | "We are *not* currently training GPT-5. We're working on doing more things with GPT-4." @sama at MIT | 21× | 766k | 1.4k | 94 | 99 |
| 9 | May 12, '24 | 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 | 18.4× | 671k | 2.2k | 198 | 488 |
| 10 | Jan 19, '23 | Great CEOs are decision machines. | 17× | 619k | 3k | 322 | 235 |
| 11 | Feb 3, '25 | MY MIND HAS JUST BEEN BOGGLED. I just tried the early release of OpenAI's new DeepResearch feature (rolling out later today to the $200/month Pro users). I've been working in the C | 15.9× | 580k | 4.2k | 331 | 2.6k |
| 12 | Mar 31, '23 | A week ago, I was in SF, listening to @sama talk about ChatGPT plugins. 🤯 In the past 7 days: 1) Acquired . 2) Moved to GPT-4 (32k tokens!) 3) Got it working as a ChatGPT plugin. | 13.1× | 478k | 1.1k | 58 | 359 |
| 13 | Nov 2, '25 | As someone who has known Sam for years (I'm co-founder of HubSpot), it bothers me that he has to go through this. He's an honest, giving soul and a great entrepreneur. | 13.1× | 478k | 692 | 16 | 123 |
| 14 | Apr 13, '24 | When working on a slide and you find yourself lowering the font size to get things to fit, STOP. Don't lower the font size. Elevate the message. | 12.9× | 472k | 5.5k | 209 | 184 |
| 15 | Apr 25, '21 | Just the initiative I was looking for. I will match @balajis donation of $50/RT up to $100k to help India fight the COVID tragedy. Thank you. 🙏 | 10× | 0 | 2.2k | 2.8k | 29 |
| 16 | May 28, '24 | In a couple of years, building an AI agent will be as prevalent and common as building a web app is today. AI agents will be the dominant way that developers solve customer problem | 9.9× | 363k | 2k | 218 | 130 |
| 17 | Apr 15, '23 | Got to see @lexfridman live at the MIT A.I. conference. Not sure if he realizes how much people respect and admire him. Including me. | 9.9× | 363k | 2.7k | 48 | 88 |
| 18 | Mar 12, '25 | LEAKED NEWS: I acquired the domain name os .ai for $150,000 (just saw the transaction reported on some online sources). It's the only two character domain name I own and one of the | 7.7× | 281k | 1.1k | 77 | 469 |
| 19 | Jan 26, '25 | I love APIs, but as we move towards a more agent-based world, I think we'll see forward-thinking products and platforms offer an interface that's built for agents. Today, we have r | 7.4× | 272k | 2k | 185 | 1.3k |
| 20 | Jan 25, '25 | Have been playing with OpenAI's "Operator" agent all weekend. Some early thoughts: 1) The fact that it's already hosted and you can just start using it means it'll be more widely u | 7.4× | 269k | 1.6k | 111 | 1.3k |
| 21 | May 25, '23 | 2 months ago, I bought the domain for $10M+. Here's what happened next: tl;dr: Sold it for a profit and am donating $250k+ to @khanacademy . | 6.5× | 237k | 759 | 82 | 122 |
| 22 | May 9, '24 | This is why 215,000+ companies use HubSpot. Disclosure: I'm biased, but I think the ad is funny and engaging. | 6.5× | 236k | 926 | 70 | 49 |
| 23 | Mar 29, '23 | BREAKING NEWS: I bought the domain name . tl;dr: I did it because #ChatUX is a Very Big Deal. Details posted here (so I don't have to answer 100 DMs and emails from friends, family | 6.4× | 234k | 825 | 91 | 75 |
| 24 | Oct 22, '24 | BREAKING NEWS: Anthropic announces the ability for Claude to *use a computer*. Yes, you read that right. A.I. will now have the ability to *use* computer software, just like humans | 6.4× | 234k | 1.3k | 120 | 669 |
| 25 | May 16, '24 | The future will be full of more small businesses. After seeing this week’s updates from OpenAI, the pace they’re moving with GPT-4o, Google’s AI Overviews for search and DeepMind’s | 6.4× | 233k | 2.9k | 226 | 171 |
| 26 | Mar 2, '25 | Wanting work-life balance is OK. Wanting to build a breakthrough startup is OK. But you shouldn't expect both. In 30+ years and knowing hundreds of founders, I've never met a singl | 6.3× | 231k | 1.6k | 225 | 743 |
| 27 | May 15, '23 | Microsoft (3 months ago): Google's the 800 pound gorilla and I want people to know that we made them dance. Google (last week at I/O): Let's dance. * Grabs 🍿 | 6.0× | 220k | 631 | 46 | 29 |
| 28 | Jun 8, '25 | I am feeling this so much today. Have spent 10+ hours this weekend working on slides for a talk coming up tomorrow. | 5.5× | 202k | 935 | 22 | 327 |
| 29 | Apr 2, '25 | The MCP Network: The Next Billion Dollar AI Idea? I'm going to share an idea that I don't have the bandwidth to pursue (I'm busy building @AgentDotAi ). You may have heard of MCP ( | 5.5× | 200k | 1.1k | 124 | 1.7k |
| 30 | Sep 16, '21 | Not bad for an introverted kid from a tiny Indian town. I have a simple plan. Invest most of this (90%) in what I'm passionate about: 1) Elevation (human rights, environment) 2) In | 5.4× | 0 | 3.3k | 217 | 173 |
| 31 | Dec 13, '23 | Was leaving to go the HubSpot office for meetings and my son told me I was "drippin". I don't generally leave the house and he's not used to seeing me in anything other than pajama | 5.2× | 190k | 1.3k | 10 | 43 |
| 32 | Nov 9, '23 | Hot take: There's a very simple reason @OpenAI is winning the A.I. platform race against Google and others. They actually understand and care deeply about developers. When building | 4.6× | 169k | 846 | 90 | 159 |
| 33 | Oct 8, '23 | Susan Cain (author of "Quiet") totally gets me: Introverts, may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in their pa | 4.5× | 163k | 679 | 58 | 241 |
| 34 | Jun 8, '21 | As you scale, you add people with low tolerance for risk, but high tolerance for process. Left unchecked, the "process people" will overwhelm the "risk people". Adding process is n | 4.4× | 0 | 2.2k | 335 | 253 |
| 35 | Sep 18, '25 | I agree with my friend and co-founder (with whom I've done 100 VC pitches over the years). The CEO should lead the pitch. I'll add a mistake many founding teams make: They try to g | 4.1× | 148k | 753 | 31 | 315 |
| 36 | Dec 31, '24 | Hey @amasad, I didn't think I could love @Replit any more than I already do. But I was wrong. The new A.I. feature is amazing -- and actually works (using it for a school project w | 4.0× | 145k | 1.3k | 35 | 361 |
| 37 | Jan 7, '25 | I also agree. Every product I've ever launched was awful in the beginning. One lesson learned: It's easy to take an awful product in which there is strong interest and make it bett | 3.9× | 143k | 868 | 70 | 428 |
| 38 | Nov 1, '22 | How is it that @naval doesn't have a verified account yet? He has 1.9 million followers and more importantly, he's Naval. | 3.8× | 0 | 2.3k | 48 | 35 |
| 39 | Aug 21, '23 | Woo hoo! HubSpot's INBOUND 2023 event is officially SOLD OUT. If you don't want to miss out, we'll be live-streaming the event for FREE. Signup here and you're in (and we can send | 3.5× | 129k | 1.3k | 115 | 22 |
| 40 | Apr 20, '23 | Lesson from the early years of HubSpot: Don't try to convince people you have a better solution than your competitors. Convince them that you picked a better problem to solve. | 3.4× | 123k | 1.2k | 151 | 330 |
| 41 | Jul 20, '25 | I'm biased, but I think @AravSrinivas has a compelling vision. In the previous era, the browser was an OS. Yes, it ran on top of MacOS or Windows or whatever -- but it was an OS in | 3.3× | 120k | 740 | 27 | 131 |
| 42 | Nov 14, '25 | 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." | 3.2× | 118k | 687 | 40 | 623 |
| 43 | Oct 3, '25 | This is legit brilliant. Made my night. I'm now going to have to resist the temptation to build an agent that automates those steps. :) You put in your existing website URL, and it | 3.2× | 117k | 538 | 11 | 551 |
| 44 | Apr 14, '23 | Whatever you do, don't play it safe. Don't do things the way they've always been done. Don't try to fit into the system. If you do what's expected of you, you'll never accomplish m | 3.2× | 115k | 652 | 92 | 153 |
| 45 | Sep 28, '25 | This is a deeply profound insight. motion > perfection It's how I've tried to live my life. | 3.1× | 115k | 1.1k | 73 | 491 |
| 46 | Apr 26, '21 | Thanks, @balajis for the inspiration. As promised, just sent $101k in BTC to @sandeepnailwal for donation to India COVID relief efforts. I loved how simple this was to do. It both | 3.1× | 0 | 1.9k | 236 | 13 |
| 47 | Feb 20, '24 | The best product managers aren't product managers. They don't "manage" product -- they BUILD product. | 3.0× | 109k | 601 | 57 | 90 |
| 48 | Oct 13, '23 | The secret that underlies most successful entrepreneurs: The ability to switch back and forth between the creative mind and the constant grind. Again, and again, and again. | 3.0× | 108k | 895 | 96 | 134 |
| 49 | Feb 5, '25 | Be an imperfectionist. Imperfectionists hit publish. Imperfectionists ship product. Imperfectionists iterate publicly. It's not that they don't believe in excellence. They dream bi | 2.8× | 103k | 1.6k | 234 | 713 |
| 50 | Dec 25, '24 | I'm with @snowmaker on this one. Vertical AI agents are going to be a massive market. But, horizontal agent platforms will be huge too (similar to the horizontal SaaS platforms we | 2.8× | 101k | 616 | 59 | 854 |
| 51 | Jul 8, '25 | CFO: Can we capitalize this software expense? CTO: Sure. THIS SOFTWARE EXPENSE. * If this dad joke gets more than 100 likes, I'm going to use it in a presentation. | 2.6× | 95k | 2.8k | 71 | 52 |
| 52 | Jul 9, '25 | I feel like I'm living in the future right now. Been using the new browser called Comet from @perplexity_ai (thanks @AravSrinivas for getting me access!) Like millions of others, I | 2.5× | 93k | 793 | 39 | 221 |
| 53 | May 6, '24 | Amazing that Jensen had this clarity of thought and conviction 15 years ago. What's also impressive is the raw humility. Worth spending the 4 min to watch. | 2.5× | 90k | 615 | 87 | 500 |
| 54 | Oct 28, '24 | .@sama says a lot of simple, smart things. This is one of them. Don't make sophisticated plans. Make steady progress. | 2.5× | 90k | 707 | 30 | 219 |
| 55 | Sep 3, '24 | I was born in founder mode and plan to die in founder mode. This is the way. | 2.4× | 86k | 870 | 50 | 42 |
| 56 | Jan 23, '22 | Hey #wordle fans, I hacked on a small, fun project this weekend that analyzes how good the "first word" you use as a guess for Wordle. Would love for you to try it out: Props if yo | 2.4× | 0 | 918 | 112 | 131 |
| 57 | Oct 25, '22 | The startup graveyard is full of companies that obsessed over their competitors instead of obsessing over their customers. | 2.4× | 0 | 1.1k | 216 | 92 |
| 58 | Dec 30, '24 | The Venn Diagram of Success. | 2.3× | 86k | 506 | 46 | 222 |
| 59 | Mar 6, '25 | The best way to win is not to start by developing a strong product but to discover a strong market need. If there's strong market need, but you have a weak product, you can iterate | 2.3× | 83k | 1.1k | 128 | 763 |
| 60 | Dec 15, '22 | Stressed-out right now. Delivering a presentation in 9 hours. 70+ slides. 7,000+ people. Super-high stakes. It's the HubSpot All-Hands. | 2.2× | 0 | 1.4k | 11 | 89 |
| 61 | Jul 25, '25 | Also, if you are not a technical founder, you do need a technical cofounder. | 2.2× | 80k | 648 | 25 | 56 |
| 62 | Mar 17, '16 | Success Is Making Those Who Believed In You Look Brilliant — Medium | 2.2× | 0 | 895 | 316 | 17 |
| 63 | Jul 20, '23 | The widest, deepest moat is customer love. | 2.2× | 79k | 530 | 75 | 34 |
| 64 | Mar 19, '23 | Absolutely Nobody: Why do you need a MacBook with 8TB of SSD? Me: So I can one day run a large language model with 65B parameters locally on a computer I carry around. What a time | 2.1× | 77k | 546 | 25 | 29 |
| 65 | Nov 19, '20 | This is the product I am most proud to have been a part of. That I've invested hundreds of hours in over the span of a decade. Yes, it's a slide deck. But, it changed my life and c | 2.1× | 0 | 832 | 87 | 231 |
| 66 | Apr 2, '24 | I turned 30 today! Not as a human (I wish!), but as a software entrepreneur. 30 years ago today I started my first company and have been doing software startups ever since. And yes | 2.0× | 73k | 638 | 19 | 90 |
| 67 | Sep 28, '22 | When Olympians are obsessed with training, we think how amazing. So dedicated! Inspiring! But when people are obsessed with their work/job, people think how sad. You need a life! Y | 2.0× | 0 | 1.1k | 93 | 87 |
| 68 | Nov 17, '23 | Still processing the news that Sam Altman was let go by the OpenAI board. I'm biased, but I thought he was uniquely suited to growing OpenAI. | 2.0× | 73k | 687 | 19 | 14 |
| 69 | Jun 14, '21 | Product Led Growth is great. What I'm excited about now is Community Led Growth. Companies that create a massive community for their category and facilitate connections will win he | 1.9× | 0 | 883 | 135 | 111 |
| 70 | Nov 22, '24 | @brian_armstrong Hi Brian, I'm building exactly this with . Happy to answer any questions your'e curious about. You know where to find me. :) | 1.8× | 66k | 788 | 25 | 494 |
| 71 | Apr 26, '23 | "A Founder's job is injecting risk into the business. It's flooding it with new ideas, stuff that seems hard to do, ideas that no one else would dare try, placing the kinds of bets | 1.8× | 65k | 513 | 85 | 130 |
| 72 | Jun 23, '25 | Also, the reason you're not optimistic enough is that you're not around optimistic people enough. | 1.8× | 65k | 636 | 42 | 80 |
| 73 | Aug 21, '22 | Dream big, iterate small. | 1.8× | 0 | 880 | 145 | 102 |
| 74 | Mar 1, '16 | There is a profound joy in surprising those who underestimated you. | 1.8× | 0 | 665 | 360 | 0 |
| 75 | Apr 5, '21 | Still the best advice on copywriting, ever: "Do not address your readers as though they were gathered together in a stadium. When they read your copy, they are alone. Pretend you a | 1.8× | 0 | 849 | 131 | 121 |
| 76 | Oct 22, '20 | Descript is one of those startups I wish I could have angel invested in. Such a brilliant product. | 1.8× | 0 | 666 | 91 | 161 |
| 77 | Jul 2, '21 | Good things come to those who wait. Great things come to those who wing it and iterate. | 1.7× | 0 | 902 | 139 | 64 |
| 78 | Jul 13, '21 | When a new business inside Amazon grows to $10 million, the overall company is growing from $10 billion to $10.01 billion. It would be easy for senior execs to scoff. But they don’ | 1.7× | 0 | 1.1k | 68 | 39 |
| 79 | Feb 15, '24 | Woo hoo! HubSpot has now reached the 200,000 customer milestone. It took us ~15 years to get to the first 100,000. Then ~3 years for the next 100,000. Our mission is still to help | 1.6× | 60k | 784 | 42 | 76 |
| 80 | Apr 4, '23 | “Every interesting thing I’ve ever done, every important thing I’ve ever done, every beneficial thing I’ve ever done, has been through a cascade of experiments and mistakes and fai | 1.6× | 58k | 579 | 60 | 67 |
| 81 | Apr 6, '24 | Someone should write an academic paper on succeeding in SaaS: "Retention Is All You Need" | 1.6× | 58k | 680 | 55 | 140 |
| 82 | Jun 25, '18 | Most companies need a "Chief Simplification Officer" more than they need a "Chief Innovation Officer". #simplewins | 1.6× | 0 | 624 | 245 | 12 |
| 83 | May 4, '23 | HubSpot turns 17 years old next month. It really has been quite the journey. Still having fun after all these years. My heart-felt thanks to our customers, partners and team. | 1.5× | 55k | 504 | 26 | 19 |
| 84 | May 13, '21 | The whole "10,000 hours" thing is bogus. It doesn't work. I watched 10,000 hours of stand-up comedy and I'm still not hilariously funny. | 1.5× | 0 | 935 | 28 | 8 |
| 85 | Dec 20, '24 | Geniuses are busy. Sages are hard to find. Children are easily distracted. Books will be there for you. Night and day without complaint, and without judgment. | 1.3× | 49k | 844 | 65 | 181 |
| 86 | Aug 11, '22 | Entrepreneurs will live 347 lives. One for every Internet domain they have purchased. Every domain is the dream of a project not yet started and a life not yet lived. --- What's th | 1.3× | 0 | 530 | 46 | 43 |
| 87 | Jan 10, '22 | Want to support Black leaders in tech? @devcolororg is the career & community accelerator for Black engineers, technologists, and execs. For every like and retweet of this post | 1.3× | 0 | 493 | 227 | 9 |
| 88 | Mar 30, '23 | I was invited once again to be on the MFM podcast with @thesamparr and @ShaanVP. We talked all things A.I. and why this may be the biggest entrepreneurial opportunity in 30+ years. | ⚡ 1.3× | 2.1M | 545 | 52 | 133 |
| 89 | Nov 3, '25 | You likely have people on your team that have been consistently *right* most of the time. They tend to push for a particular decision/path and turn out to be right over the fullnes | 1.3× | 46k | 515 | 47 | 263 |
| 90 | Feb 24, '21 | In a SaaS business, approximately 100% of your energy should be spent on things that increase retention: 1) make the product better 2) sell better fit customers 3) invest in educat | 1.2× | 0 | 563 | 109 | 77 |
| 91 | Dec 19, '21 | If #web3 were a company it should fire its Chief Marketing Officer. "NFT" is an awful term for an awesome idea. 1) Acronyms don't generate an emotional connection or stick in your | 1.1× | 0 | 607 | 41 | 32 |
| 92 | Jun 4, '21 | Fun Fact Friday: HubSpot was never a unicorn. But, on average, we have added more than a unicorn ($1B+) worth of valuation every year for all 15 years since we were founded. Most o | 1.1× | 0 | 761 | 34 | 15 |
| 93 | Aug 21, '19 | As a startup: At first you fight death. Next you fight stagnation. Then you fight complexity. It's a noble fight. | 1.1× | 0 | 521 | 145 | 19 |
| 94 | Aug 10, '22 | I know Discord is all the rage these days, but its user interface makes my head hurt. Anyone else feel that, or is it just me? | 1.1× | 0 | 615 | 12 | 12 |
| 95 | Apr 23, '21 | "The single most powerful pattern I have noticed is that successful people find value in unexpected places, and they do this by thinking about business from first principles instea | 1.1× | 0 | 518 | 69 | 92 |
| 96 | Jan 31, '22 | Woo hoo! I'm now the proud owner of dharmesh.eth. | 1.1× | 0 | 705 | 16 | 2 |
| 97 | Apr 9, '24 | I'm a fan of systems thinking. I'm an even bigger fan of systems doing. | 1.0× | 37k | 509 | 37 | 79 |
| 98 | Jan 17, '22 | I'm moving to an async model of working. Yes, an email discussion takes more total time than a 30-60 min meeting. But all time is not created equal. A meeting cuts up my day. Email | 0.9× | 0 | 525 | 31 | 35 |
| 99 | Jul 4, '25 | The U.S. allowed this shy, introverted kid from a tiny town in India to start a company like @HubSpot which has the honor of serving 250,000+ growing companies. And getting to work | 0.9× | 31k | 589 | 22 | 38 |
| 100 | Aug 28 | I soft-launched YouSpot yesterday (via a tweet). YouSpot is an AI-native Solo CRM. Fortune favors the focused. So, here's who YouSpot is NOT for: 1) If you have a GTM team (marketi | 0.8× | 31k | 173 | 12 | 102 |
| 101 | Aug 21, '25 | A picture is worth a thousand words. A prototype is worth a thousand pictures. A product is worth a thousand prototypes. | 0.8× | 28k | 503 | 66 | 71 |
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