HubSpot CEO on AI, pricing and Clearbit - and no mention of the elephant in the room

As HubSpot turned in its Q1 numbers yesterday, there was a great big elephant in the room that stayed silent. Last month scuttlebutt emerged about the company potentially being acquired by Alphabet to beef up Google’s efforts to compete with the likes of Salesforce, Oracle and Microsoft in the SMB CRM space. According to a report from Bloomberg yesterday, a deal is being actively discussed, although it inevitably didn’t merit even a passing mention on HubSpot’s post-earnings analyst call.

Instead CEO Yamini Rangan focused on the core business of HubSpot

We ground ourselves on not what is changing today, but what will not change for our customers. Our customers will need easy-to-use solutions that can help them grow. Our customers will need us to drive innovation so that they can compete with bigger companies in the age of AI. This is exactly what we are focused on ...