Who is Dan Tyre?
Dan Tyre is the founder and CEO of Tyre Angel, an investment company with the mission of building great leaders and building great companies. He was employee #6 at HubSpot, where he was the first salesperson in 2007. He has helped scale six start ups (two unicorns) over 46 years. He has been the CEO and founder of two fast growing scale ups and is familiar with in the trenches raw scale up execution. He is a dynamic public speaker, author, investor, executive coach, board member, farmer, pilgrim and arctic explorer. He is an adviser for dozens of global companies looking to grow in the modern economy and lectures at multiple universities across the world.
He spent 17+ years at HubSpot (transitioned on January 5, 2024) in a variety of roles, often focusing his considerable knowledge on inbound sales (from the BDR role, to SMB to mid market, enterprise and corporate sales), demand generation and marketing, customer service and operations always with an emphasis on focus and execution.
Dan ran the HubSpot Small Business Division for several years, helped start the HubSpot for StartUps Program in 2010 and was instrumental in the inception of the HubSpot Partner program in 2008. He also worked in HubSpot Academy, and spoke throughout the world more than 100X as an INBOUND fellow.
His experience also includes work with startups including Gipper, Databox, Overflow, Delfina Intelligent Pregnancy Care, Breath-EV, Nivati, Chicory, Qureos and 25+ other portfolio companies at Tyre Angel. He is a limited partner at Stage 2 Capital.
Dan also coined the term "Smarketing'' to describe the necessary alignment between sales and marketing and is frequently inventing goofy words.
