VP, Partnership Marketing @HubSpot. INTJ. Skeptical optimist. Happiest on water, spreadsheets & analytics come close. In permanent beta
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James Gilbert retweeted
HubSpot is now available for Claude auto-connect. Users are always-on and automatically connected - with no sign-in screen. Admins govern, and for everyone else, it just works.
James Gilbert retweeted
it’s honestly insane how much of the modern tech tree has been unlocked because of a single guy
thanks to Elon we have
- online payments
- mass market electric cars
- batteries and grid-scale energy storage
- self driving cars and robotaxis
- humanoid robots
- advanced brain computer interfaces
- next generation tunneling
- reusable rockets
-global satellite internet
- basically the modern space industry
- Moon and Mars transportation
- orbital compute and space data centers
- frontier AI
- gigantic AI supercomputers
- physical world AI
and the wildest part is that these branches are now starting to merge
there is a very real chance that this one guy ends up being the reason humanity reaches Kardashev II
genuinely the man of the millennium
James Gilbert retweeted
The algorithm isn’t responsible for inflation.
The algorithm isn’t managing immigration.
It isn’t taxing too high and wasting too much.
It didn’t break a promise of cheaper power bills.
It isn’t failing to solve the housing crisis.
Albo & Co. can blame the algorithm all they want.
It won’t change the outcomes they’ve delivered.
James Gilbert retweeted
Lied. Got elected. Smashed CGT.
Now they want the internet shut down because Australians noticed.
That’s not harmony. That’s economic vandalism.
@DHughesy is right. #StopTheCGT
#JoinWARonCGT
James Gilbert retweeted
The Victorian public service was bloated and destructive before 2014.
It is worse now.
In November, you get one chance to say so.
If we choose wrong again, heaven help us.
James Gilbert retweeted
The 22,000 extra people Victoria hired since 2014 are not sitting idle.
They are working full time producing the red tape that cripples businesses and drives up the price of housing and rent.
We pay them to make our lives more expensive.
James Gilbert retweeted
The Greens Leader calls me ‘A rich landlord prick’, We are renting a 2BR renovated inner city Melb apartment with carparking to a single mum and her kids for $120 a week, a lease that started ten years ago and has not had any increase. Not negative geared either.
My wife is a big driver in how our rents are set. She’s also a full time public school Grade 6 teacher who does many unpaid hours of overtime a week, without complaint, and still runs our 3 kid, 3 rescue cat and a rescue dog household with tireless effort. Is she a rich landlord prick too Nick?
Or should you remember you’re on a huge public salary and shift your focus to helping Australia, rather than hunting for social media likes by lashing out at a concerned citizen via a posted video rant full of lies, simply for pointing out glaring problems?
Dave Hughes has gone to war with the Greens.
Hughesy has been fired up about broken promises in the budget.
Senator Nick McKim says he’s a “rich landlord prick”.
Listen to the details HERE.
🎧omny.fm/shows/ben-fordham-fu…🎧
James Gilbert retweeted
The Prime Minister and Labor have no moral authority to be attacking One Nation and Pauline Hanson when they dine with Daniel Andrews with Felix Lee.
That is a recipe for disaster.
Australians beware
James Gilbert retweeted
Every single day on @AustralianLabor Govt funded building sites, millions of dollars of public money is stolen. Everyone in the building game knows. Huge building companies involved are quiet about it, and get vastly richer off public funds for their silence, This is money that could be used to help vulnerable people in this nation.
And what is the @AustralianLabor Govt’s response to the massive public cost of the crime they have enabled and are benefitting from? It is to push public debt past the trillion mark while also increasing already sky high taxes. This means more honest Australians go further into personal debt and more honest Australian businesses go bankrupt. The mental health toll on honest hard working people is catastrophic.
And now @australianLabor are looking to involve the trillions in Australian superfunds, the blood sweat and tears of honest Aussies, collected over lifetimes of work, to fund more public building works and continue this crime spree. Greed keeps those benefitting from stopping it, fear of reprisal keeps those watching it, but not benefitting, from publicly saying what they see, At some point, if it continues, this country will completely fall apart.
James Gilbert retweeted
Open the financials for the Big Build since it started all those years ago, including current ones and budgets for future ones. All Govt funded building in Victoria since 2013, actually do the last 30 years. Let’s compare it all, and with similar builds around Australia and around the world. Let’s see how the value for money compares. Surely everyone associated with VIc Govt funded construction would be happy with that? So that their names can stop being tainted?
James Gilbert retweeted
Oh yes, I remember that Bond film where the villain decarbonized the auto industry, brought fast internet to everyone on the planet, and helped paralyzed people interact with the world again.
Elon Musk is a real-life Bond villain ft.trib.al/zAOuVKk
James Gilbert retweeted
I always weep reading the Wikipedia pages of senior Singaporean politicians. The general career path seems to be:
Excel at school and secure a scholarship to study some super difficult subject, like maths or physics, at Cambridge University.
Excel at university and get a scholarship to do a post-grad degree in governance or an MBA at Harvard.
Join the Singaporean military and excel. Reach at least the rank of Brigadier or General.
Enter politics. Excel even compared with others who have similar CVs, rise to become a senior position.
Compare that with the career path of the average senior British politican.
Get the same results as every other middle class child at school.
Do PPE or straight up politics at university.
Leverage your contacts to become a SPAD for a cabinet or shadow cabinet member.
Get a column writing gig at the Spectator, Economist or New Statesman
Become a more senior SPAD.
Run in an impossible to win seat to prove you really want to be in parliament.
Get parachuted into a safe seat as a rising star.
Get a junior ministerial position in the first reshuffle after the election.
Get made a cabinet member after the next election.
Now, why is Singapore an extremely well run country and we are not?
The death of CRM is greatly exaggerated
I've been working and building in the CRM industry for 30+ years (so have far exceeded the needed 10,000 hours). The last big transformation we saw in CRM was over 25 years ago with Salesforce's launch of what became the Cloud CRM. Eventually, every (successful) CRM was a cloud CRM.
The next big transformation is happening now with the advent of AI and agents.
But it's not about being "AI first", it's about being CONTEXT FIRST.
Context isn't a feature. It's the whole game.
Modern AI models are sensationally smart. But success is not just about high IQ, it's also about having high CQ (Context Quotient). The smartest person in the room is useless if they just walked in.
An AI that knows your Q2 pipeline is full, your best rep is on parental leave, and your biggest account just hired a new decision-maker responds very differently than one that doesn't.
In most companies, context lives in databases, docs, message threads… and people's heads. It's scattered and fragmented. That's a problem because without shared context, AI is just a very smart intern on their first day at work.
AI agents are awesome – but only if they're context aware.
So, I'm thrilled to finally share what HubSpot has been working towards.
It's been 20 years in the making:
The Agentic Customer Platform
A customer platform built for both humans *and* AI agents. One that is context-first. A platform that combines the world's smartest AI models with the deepest context to deliver the most effective agents to drive your growth.
Agents are the future of software and agentic is the future of customer platforms.
Eventually, every (successful) customer platform will be an agentic customer platform -- and every successful GTM agent will need to integrate with an agentic customer platform. Yes, I know I'm biased, but that doesn't necessarily mean I'm wrong. :)
You can read more details about our vision in a post today by @yaminirangan (HubSpot's CEO). You can get to it by visiting: acp .net (yes, I like short links…and I don't know why).
I'll be digging into the details of what this means from a product/technology perspective and how it actually works over the coming weeks and months.
I love it when the dots start to connect.
James Gilbert retweeted
Brad Pitt once shared his favorite Adam Sandler story:
a professor took Sandler out for beer, told him to “pick another career.”
Years later, when he was successful, he ran into him at a bar. He told his friends:
“This is only teacher who bought me beer”
James Gilbert retweeted
Every AI model in the world—open source, commercial, audio, image, text—under one-click. Just ask Agent to build with your favorite model and let us worry about the rest.
James Gilbert retweeted
Andrew Hastie’s formula for getting Australia back on track! He’s got my vote!!!
If I was the leader of Australia this what I would do immediately:
1) Pull out of Paris Agreement and cease all renewable energy for base load power that includes Solar, Wind and Battery Storage.
2) Remove the ban on Nuclear and start a tender process to build Nuclear plants around the country. This will be off the shelf plants with proven safety.
3) Remove all subsidies for solar and batteries for domestic use but encourage its use, based on electricity suppliers paying a market price for energy generated.
4) Call a full Audit of the NDIS and reform the system dramatically so that it looks after the disabled. It will include sending all so called autistic kids back to clinicians for assessment. Inform doctors that if they sign false declarations they will lose their registration. Audit vendors and pay market price for services! Introduce a tafe course for young people who can work as carers and not through agencies charging 200 dollars per hour! Let young people get a certificate and get paid say 50 dollars per hour if they work as a carer! This way the NDIS will be sustainable and we can take care of our disabled.
5) Build a plant which would cost the same as the voice, in South Australia! The plant will enrich uranium for the demand of enriched uranium! There is a shortage of enriched uranium and very little available in the West. This will provide jobs and much needed tax revenue.
6) Encourage the big mining companies to build a steel plant in the Pilbara and use gas as a source of energy to start making Australian steel.
7) Place a ban on foreign students being able to apply to stay in Australia! Once they finished their studies they must return home and apply for migration through the normal process.
8 ) Go back to a skilled migration system and bring people to Australia based on needs. Cancel visas for those who do not embrace Australian values and deport these people immediately. Ban all Palestine protests and deport Muslim leaders who preach hate.
9) Continue to invest in mining and remove red tape but make sure mining is done in a sustainable way! Approave mines based on economic needs and not indigenous activism.
10) Stop treating indigenous people as victims and if they do not make sure their kids go to school, they lose all benefits and go back and live off the land like their ancestors.
11) Place limits on jobseeker. Applicants must provide evidence of an unsuccessful application directly from the company and not evidence that they have applied.
12) Call a royal commission into union corruption especially in the construction industry, which is pushing up construction costs.
13) restructure the ABC! Keep funding regional ABC and privatise the ABC based in the cities! Let the ABC in the cities compete with commercial broadcasting!
I have more but off to the rugby!
James Gilbert retweeted
These figures demonstrate what those of us in business knew was happening.
This is a crisis and it's been caused by over spending politicians and governments.
It's not sustainable and yet as we head towards a "productivity summit" all we hear about is "tax reform". i.e - more tax needs to be paid.
This is not the answer - it's government spending that has to be brought under control.
