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Why Dublin Became One of SaaS's Most Important Cities
HubSpot picked Dublin in 2013. So did Salesforce, Stripe, Google, Meta, and TikTok. How a city of 600,000 became SaaS's European capital — and whether the model holds.

HubSpot picked Dublin in 2013. So did Salesforce, Stripe, Google, Meta, and TikTok. How a city of 600,000 became SaaS's European capital — and whether the model holds.

Three B2B software companies built content-marketing infrastructure that would define the discipline. HubSpot anchored on "inbound marketing" category creation. Mailchimp built distinctive brand voice. Buffer built radical transparency. Three doctrines, one shared insight: content marketing is the growth strategy, not a sub-function beneath it.