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by shockzzz 3725 days ago
Good response, I'll give him that. It succeeds it bringing focus away from the fact that they tried to kill the book before it got published

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bognition 3725 days ago
Trying to kill the book doesn't mean anything what company wouldn't try to kill a book like this?
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shockzzz 3725 days ago
Could you expand on that more? From my perspective, there are a lot of ethical concerns with silencing opposing viewpoints. In fact, one of the execs was publicly admonished and fired because he tried to do so:

http://www.betaboston.com/news/2015/07/30/hubspot-ceo-and-ct...

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imron 3725 days ago
> what company wouldn't try to kill a book like this?

Perhaps you mean what company wouldn't kill for a book like this.

All publicity is good publicity, yada, yada, yada. I'd never heard of HubSpot before all this fuss, and I'm sure there are plenty of others like me.

I'd be surprised if the whole thing didn't generate new customers for them.

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