Guys it’s a tiny anecdotal singular datapoint but I was out at a bar yesterday in Singapore and got chatting to a bunch of Irish and Americans - I guess St Paddy’s day brought them out for the weekend.
Anyhow it was pretty interesting. It turns out they work for Hubspot who have a pretty significant office here. Some had moved across from the Ireland office which was their European HQ.
Anyhow apparently the business is going gangbusters here. They serve certainly North Asia out of here and are working day and night on client coverage.
They are hiring and expanding their teams quickly - especially sales and have what turns out to be a very smart well located office.
They are having to continually raise their country targets across the region and sales are going very very well. They all seemed nice young smart people.
Did some digging as a result and these news announcements seemed to confirm the reality!
https://www.hubspot.com/company-news/hubspot-opens-official-…
https://www.hubspot.com/company-news/hubspot-s-dublin-office…
Tinker and Jon - if you were looking for a cloud based CRM play other than Veeva and SFDC then this could be it. They have a digital marketing plus CRM stack which would be irrelevant in pharma but probably much more like it in consumer, services, ecommerce and digital etc.
Ant