Advice for New Grads: Trust Your Instincts and Follow Your Own Path
May 19, 2015
A Bentley alum's advice to new grads: Don’t be afraid to take risks and gain experience through paving your own path.


Perhaps no Boston start-up embodies the shifting sands of business and the youthful, risk-taking Gen Y spirit quite like HubSpot. Perhaps that’s because co-founder Brian Halligan himself found success as a 25-year-old, and is now paying forward that risk-taking faith in young talent: 85 percent of HubSpot’s 800 employees worldwide are under the age of 34. HubSpot, and Halligan, clearly know what millennials want and how businesses can change to be more in synch with them.