He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Vermont in 1990[7] and an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management in 2005.

[8][9] His career began at Parametric Technology Corporation in several roles leading up to senior vice president of the Pacific Rim.

In HubSpot's 2022 Year In Review, the company reported $1.731 billion in total revenue and 5,895 employees with headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and offices in Dublin, Ireland (EMEA HQ), Berlin, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, Japan, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and San Francisco.

[16] He is a senior lecturer at MIT[8] teaching "Designing, Developing, and Launching Successful Products in an Entrepreneurial Environment".

The thesis of the book is that because people block marketing that interrupts them, such as advertisements and spam, companies need to instead provide information that is useful to prospects, who will then self-identify.

Reviewing the book, Meryl Evans said that it contains "elementary stuff..." but it "does a good job for those who don’t have a clue about how to use social media for business".

Scott Kirsner, reviewing this book in The Boston Globe,[25] mentions that the authors say that they were inspired, in part, by an article in The Atlantic by Joshua Green.

An anonymous donor made an additional donation of $1.6M and so the total benefit the Southern Poverty Law Center was $3.5M.