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| Our strong growth in our lower ASP Starter customers more than offset the positive impact to ASRPC of the steady progress in our multi-hub adoption upmarket |
| Customers are simplifying and consolidating on fewer, more effective platforms, and this translated to stable gross retention and more multi-hub wins for HubSpot |
| We delivered a standout operating profit margin of 17% in Q4 and 15% for the full year, up over 500 basis points year-over-year |
| Total customers grew 23% to over 205,000 customers globally, driven by nearly 11,000 net customer additions in the quarter, a new record for us |
| Our customers have high confidence in our ability to help them grow and we are becoming the clear platform of choice for scaling companies |
| This was a good quarter for us in terms of big deals, and big deals tend to have longer billing terms, and so it showed up in billings for us in Q4 |
| We believe that our continued success at the low end coupled with the lower barrier to entry and our new pricing model will allow us to maintain quarterly net customer additions around 10,000 in 2024 |
| At the lower end of the market, we saw exceptionally strong net adds driven by Starter momentum |
| Nice to see continued momentum in the business |
| And if you take a step back, we want to be able to bring together enriched data, powerful AI tools that can drive insights from the data and are easy to use engagement hubs so that our customers can connect and grow |
| Full year subscription revenue grew 26% year-over-year, while services and other revenue increased 16%, both on an as reported basis |
| These efforts resulted in record net adds that we are pleased with |
| In upmarket the big themes in Q4 were large deal strength, sales hub and multi-hub momentum |
| We are really not ready to call it all clear in terms of the patterns, but the value proposition upmarket is certainly resonating and that translated into large deal strength |
| And we continue to get really good positive feedback from customers and partners |
| Calculated billings were $662 million in Q4, growing 21% year-over-year in constant currency, and 22% as reported, driven by our strong large deal performance in Q4 |
| That said, we think this seats pricing model should reduce the overall friction in that motion and we're optimistic that we can really change the game on the Starter upgrade rate with this new pricing model |
| It is becoming a sustainable front door to HubSpot and I'm thrilled with the momentum we are seeing after the relaunch |
| We continue to see strong top of funnel demand |
| We saw a solid finish to a good year despite the challenging macro environment |
| The data points that we have are really from the pilot and what we saw in the pilot was very strong assignment of core seats across the set of customers on the new model, which indicates to us that there is real value here and we should see a meaningful uplift in the percentage of users who will be on a paid seat |
| So this is a foundational shift that removes friction and provides value and gives us the ability to continue to expand over the next multiple years |
| We are again pleased with the strength that we saw in our Starter customer additions in the quarter |
| Now that we've removed the seat minimums, it encourages starter customers to start with the suite and I'd say that the value proposition is exceptionally compelling |
| I'm thrilled with the innovation the team delivered in 2023 and look forward to driving even more value for our customers this year |
| Overall, I'm really excited about our pricing model evolution |
| We are definitely pleased with the momentum in Service Hub, both from a product perspective as well as customer adoption perspective |
| This differentiated strategy should drive even more adoption of HubSpot AI and drive more upgrades as we continue to add value in higher tiers |
| And so it's become a really nice growth lever to continue to grow the ecosystem for us |
| This will remove friction for customers and will help us accelerate market share gains |
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| Despite some signs of stabilization in downgrades and buyer urgency in Q4, our current working assumption is that the macroeconomic environment will remain challenging in 2024 |
| We continue to see customers actively scrutinize spending, resulting in continued pressure on net upgrades |
| This will result in ASRPC growth that is down in the low single digits for the year |
| Average subscription revenue per customer was nearly $11,400, growing 1% on an as reported basis and declining 1% year-over-year in constant currency |
| That said, we're not sounding the all clear just yet, as we continue to see cautious buying and multiple decision makers involved in deals |
| As Yamini shared, we continue to operate in a choppy and challenging environment |
| In general, our customers are still cautious, and we assume that our customers are going to continue to optimize their spend throughout 2024 |
| Throughout 2023, we saw customers tightening their budgets, deal cycles taking longer and overall scrutiny in the buying process |
| Kate Bueker Yes, I mean, you definitely heard both Yamini and I talk in our prepared remarks that we saw some early positive signs in Q4, but at the highest level, we're assuming that the macro conditions remain challenging into 2024 |
| Please refer to the cautionary language in today's press release and our Form 10-Q, which will be filed with the SEC this afternoon for a discussion of the risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations |
| There was actually convergence in the December quarter, which was a bit sooner than we were thinking |
| This is a point of friction as customers look to upgrade |
| There is still friction in that motion |
| You asked about, what are we learning? We're definitely seeing a lot of adoption, but there is some signal, some noise |
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