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Another LinkedIn CEO Being a Dumbass




So many things are wrong with this. 
For starters, he should have been well aware that the discount wasn't to be held up for ALL of the renewal contracts that he was going to engage in. 

They still received Hubspot at a 74%(!!) percent discount for three years. Whether you think that's overpriced or not, still insane. 

CRM renewal should be pretty high on a companies priority list. It’s critical to running their ships engine, yet they let it come at last minute without doing any looking around. 

Lastly, Agorapulse raised their own prices 2.5X! Being naive and a hypocrite is a shitty combo. 

It probably was bad communication on HubSpot’s side, but he’s still definitely in the wrong here, imo.


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antiASKHOLE
Tycoon
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Bravado's Resident Asshole
Holy shit... @Sunbunny31 the spelling errors and typos are insane. What a jackass.

not you @DirtyMoney , just the Emeric idiot.
jefe
Arsonist
13
🍁
The spelling errors literally had me twitching. How is this guy running a business and posting publicly without proofreading. There are plugins for that!!
GAH
7
Founding BDR
Owns a social media platform, too. Ironic 😂
Sunbunny31
Politicker
6
Sr Sales Executive 🐰
So many sloppy errors! And from a CEO posting publicly. OUCH.
Also, complaining that he can't keep a steep discount? Doesn't he know you NEGOTIATE RENEWAL TERMS at the time you sign the initial contract?
HVACexpert
Politicker
2
sales engineer
He obviously didn’t
Sunbunny31
Politicker
3
Sr Sales Executive 🐰
And $40K/year is a hefty price? Oh, my dude.
HVACexpert
Politicker
1
sales engineer
Well maybe for some, but if you understood the agreement and pricing then it shouldn’t have been an issue
Sunbunny31
Politicker
3
Sr Sales Executive 🐰
Oh, of course. But if he's getting a premium product at a steep, steep discount, you don't publicly admit you think it's pricy. People might think you are running out of $$, which cannot be good for business.
pirate
Big Shot
2
🦜☠️ Account Executive
The typos seriously bother me as well
BigShrimpin
Catalyst
2
Account executive
late night drunk posting while reviewing the signature
coletrain
Politicker
1
Account Executive
That the typos start on the first line speaks volumes.
If I was a VC backing this guy I'd be concerned
braintank
Politicker
11
Enterprise Account Executive
As a lawyer he should know how to negotiate a better contract
8
Founding BDR
Didn’t even notice he’s a former business lawyer. That’s fkn insane.
poweredbycaffeine
WR Lieutenant
3
☕️
If he read his contract he would likely have seen the pricing and discounts were only valid during the initial term. That’s how his own team sells. What a dinnnnnnnnk.
jefe
Arsonist
10
🍁
Who the hell would think that a discount is forever? You're right, they already got 74% off, and then didn't plan for something critical.

What a knob.

Their own price increase is just icing on the cake.
HappyGilmore
Politicker
6
Account Executive
lol this guy is a complete goon. How could he think a 74% discount would just roll over onto his next contract
Revenue_Rambo
Politicker
6
Director, Revenue Enablement
This guy clearly rode the short bus to law school
8
Founding BDR
Same vibes.
Fenderbaum
Politicker
4
Retired Choirboy🪕
He's a wanker.
pirate
Big Shot
4
🦜☠️ Account Executive
The post seems to be removed now so I wonder if that was a negotiation technique in itself. Like I will post badly about you all unless you give me a discount now. It puts the reps in bad position and management will just want to make it go away. Nasty.
Sunbunny31
Politicker
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Sr Sales Executive 🐰
How would he expect it to make him look anything else but a bad, and whiny, businessman?
He's put all his potential future vendors on notice as well. Some business just isn't worth the hassle.
sassy_seller
Executive
4
AE
he's literally crying for his own mistakes that he didn't do prior to signing.. did he expect same crazy discount upon renewal? crazy
CuriousFox
WR Officer
4
🦊
Fucking loser
J.J.McLure
Politicker
3
Owner at *redacted*
I just wonder what he’s trying to gain from this post? He just made sure I would never consider Agorapulse (whatever they do) for 2 reasons;

1- Those are a crazy amount of spelling mistakes which makes me thing that the guy running the company is very impulsive, he got upset and wrote this up in a rage and blasted it out to his network.

2- Not realizing he gets that discount for 3 years and then has to pay full price makes me think he is not very good with the finer details.

Whatever they do, that’s not someone that I would choose to do business with
5
Founding BDR
Only reason I saw this was because I applied for a BDR role at Agorapulse and messaged him a couple of weeks ago. Glad I didn't hear back!
jefe
Arsonist
2
🍁
Bullet dodged
Sunbunny31
Politicker
2
Sr Sales Executive 🐰
EXACTLY.
J.J.McLure
Politicker
3
Owner at *redacted*
I was really hoping for more entertaining comments, but it's all agreeing with him or very PC.
Good response from a guy at HubSPot though;
Emeric, I'm very surprised with your post and I have engaged straight away with your HubSpot team on the matter. It's confusing to see that your message here is far from the reality of the conversation you have with us, but you must have your motivation/reason to do so. Though, feel free to reach out to me or Matthieu GAUTHIER or Ludovic Leve to clear the air, especially on that important discrepancy between your post and what you've been telling us. There are many omission in what you share which makes it impossible for your audience to understand. There are definitely many great vendors out there that we'd love to learn from. If any of these vendors would fancy a chat, we'd love to discuss. Let's learn from each other! Best, Y.
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Founding BDR
Yeah this seemed to be the most transparent and logical comment left
Sunbunny31
Politicker
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Sr Sales Executive 🐰
Now that dude - sounds trustworthy. Great response.
Sunbunny31
Politicker
0
Sr Sales Executive 🐰
Also, seems like they all may be French, which may explain a bit of the spelling errors, but not the impulsivity to post without double checking.
BTQ
Politicker
2
Account Manager
What a nerd! Even has a nerdy name
lowhangersalesbanger
Executive
2
Director of Sales
I almost had a stroke because of spelling errors.
Justatitle
Big Shot
2
Account Executive
stupid is as stupid does
0
Founding BDR
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JavierCake
Fire Starter
2
Account Executive
Oof the grammar in this dude’s post 😳
2
Founding BDR
It's something else
ForecastReady
2
President & Founder
The typos and grammatical butchering on this VERY public message trashing another company is egregious. Wow! Also HubSpot offered them a 74% discount what the what!
2
Founding BDR
Really insane
saaskicker
Celebrated Contributor
1
Enterprise AE
How to get no customer service in your final year of the more expensive contract 101. When he calls the marketing automation platform next year, the AE is going to see this post and laugh. I'd charge him 174% of list price.
Rosie
Catalyst
1
Sales Director
I mean if you complain about the CRM pricing then why are you running a startup at first place?
SoftCoreWareAsAService
Executive
1
Sales Manager
Something tells me that he is bad at running a business when he doesn’t have someone that can get him the details up front.
snafu_sales
Catalyst
1
SaaS Sales
That spelling got me feeling some kind of way
1
Principal Enterprise Executive Relationship Manager
Seriously, I can't get past the spelling mistakes. Super distracting!
1
Founding BDR
Right 😂
1
Managing Director
My 11 year old son could have proofread that for him..... shocking
1
Founding BDR
Literally
Abika
Executive
1
Business Development Manager
To be honest, Hubspot is quite transparent with its discounts. He was probably to lazy to read the agreement in full.

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Founding BDR
That’s what I’ve heard too. Wouldn’t have been that much an effort at all
DungeonsNDemos
Big Shot
0
Rolling 20's all day
Anybody else surprised at the “75% discount?” I sell software and hardly ever go over 10% off our standard pricing…
I know many sales teams sell like 40% discounted deals but 75% seems insane unless they were leveraging this customer for case studies and logo use or something.

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