Dharmesh Shah — Co-founder & CTO, HubSpot

**Dharmesh Shah** is the co-founder and CTO of **HubSpot** (NYSE: HUBS), the inbound marketing and CRM platform with over $2B in annual revenue. Born in India, he came to the US and founded his first software company before attending MIT Sloan, where he met HubSpot co-founder Brian Halligan. He created the concept of "inbound marketing" — attracting customers through content rather than interrupting them with ads — which became both HubSpot's product thesis and a marketing philosophy adopted worldwide.