Hugo in the Media

Hugo, a San Francisco-based meeting technology company, has been hand-selected by some of the world’s most successful investors to be included as a ‘breakout startup’ at Web Summit, 'the largest technology conference on the planet.’ Josh Lowy opened Web Summit talking about Hugo on stage in front of 20,000 attendees.

Suggestions on how automation can be leveraged and ways to use SaaS more efficiently peppered conversations with Zendesk and Hugo.

Darren recently spoke at Hubspot's annual Inbound event in Boston with an audience of 27,000. He spoke about the Idea Meritocracy and how the best teams make decisions.

Hugo was honored to be first on stage before 29,000 people at Collision 2019 in Toronto. Collision is often described as North America's fastest-growing tech conference. At the very beginning — before keynotes from Justin Trudeau, Ev Williams (Medium founder), Seth Rogan, Ryan Holmes (Hootsuite founder), Tobias Lütke (Shopify CEO), and Joseph Gordon-Levitt — we had the supreme privilege of being the first of a handful of up-and-coming startups that got to share what we did with the crowd.

Josh gave a keynote presentation at Gainsight's Pulse 2019 conference on making your CS team a core driver of the business

Two entrepreneurs stumbled upon a few Summit keynote recordings and the Atlassian Team Playbook. What followed was the transformation of their business. Starting with a fractured team and a product struggling to find its place in the market, they emerged as a leader in their space with a tightly aligned team that is smashing their goals. Josh Lowy shared these lessons with attendees at the 2019 Atlassian Summit.

Darren joined a panel at LTV Conf talking about what the best teams are doing in teamwork.

Josh was on a panel discussing Why Executives are Doubling Down on Customer Success with leaders from other tech companies.

Josh recently spoke at Gainsight's Pulse Europe 2018 about How small CS teams can punch above their weight.

Josh joined the Gainsight team and more than 5,000 attendees to discuss how your Quarterly Business Review (aka Executive Business Review) is often a make-or-break moment in your customer relationship.

As the team behind Hugo, the leading meeting notes platform, you won’t be surprised to hear that we love meetings. But what may surprise you is that one reason we love meetings is because we don’t have many.

If you want to understand what’s going on inside a company, you need to start with the source of those action items, brainstorming sessions, and user insights. You need to start with meetings.

We’ve just hit the one monthiversary of remote work as the new normal. The how-to posts, downloadable Zoom backgrounds and virtual team building ideas have slowed down, and the world is settling into working from home.

There are some unexpected trends amongst the many thousands of calendar events we have analyzed over the last few weeks that show the widespread challenges workers encounter when swapping the conference room for the living room.

Decentralized teams face a number of challenges that can have damaging consequences if unaddressed — but they can be overcome.

Rethink your stance on meetings in 2020 and learn how to meet better.

Meetings are opportunities, they’re not just about satisfying an objective. That’s why 10X Meetings matter.

This is an excerpt from 10X Culture, the new book of best-kept secrets of the world’s most successful teams.

B2B used to be a boring software category. When the rise of affordable Cloud Computing dropped the cost of starting a new company, that changed — innovation took place in every sphere of business and we all ended up with a set of amazingly powerful tools to work better together. Read more.

The critical role played by customer success (CS) teams is well known, as is the importance of the customer success software powering these teams. But, could thinking about customer success software as a category be leading us down the wrong path?

At Hugo, we often talk to our customers about what they think of our product, and how their business benefits from using it. Over the last few conversations, we noticed that a certain theme recurred: our customers told us that equity and the share of voice from certain team members were on the rise after using Hugo even for just a few weeks. We shared this story with Freshworks.

Darren Chait co-founded Hugo (meeting note SaaS) with long-time friend, Josh Lowy in San Francisco in 2016 as they were bewildered by the state of meetings. Despite signing up many users, they needed to boost customer engagement to increase retention and learning. So they devised a pretty insane onboarding email strategy. This post explains…

Hugo, the connected meeting notes platform, has announced that Gradient Ventures, Google´s AI-focused investment fund, led the company´s recent USD 6.1M seed financing round with participation from Slack Fund, Founder Collective and Entrée Capital, the company said.

Hugo has announced that Gradient Ventures led the company’s recent $6.1 million seed financing round with participation from Slack Fund, Founder Collective, and Entrée Capital.

Workplace productivity software has had an insane year with slick subscription tools popping up seemingly each new day. VCs have been backing the tools en masse, and startups are continuing to find new holes in company workflows that can be patched with a new service. Today, Hugo announces more than $6m in seed funding.

Meeting notes startup Hugo Corp. today revealed that it has raised $6.1 million in funding to continue to hire more people and accelerate product development.

Hugo, a San Francisco, CA-based connected meeting notes platform, raised 6.1m in seed funding.

Hugo is a collaborative note-taking app focused on sharing meeting notes across teams within companies to reduce redundancy and improve information accessibility. The startup’s founders tell TechCrunch they’ve closed a $6.1 million seed round led by Google’s AI-focused investment fund, Gradient Ventures. Slack Fund, Founder Collective and Entrée Capital also participated in the raise.

Hugo, a San Francisco-based meeting technology company, has been hand-selected by some of the world’s most successful investors to be included as a ‘breakout startup’ at Web Summit, 'the largest technology conference on the planet.’ Josh Lowy opened Web Summit talking about Hugo on stage in front of 20,000 attendees.

Hugo, a San Francisco-based meeting technology company, today announced the release of a new book, 10X Culture, co-authored by co-founders Josh Lowy and Darren Chait and product education lead Rob Lennon.

We are excited to finally announce the release of Hugo’s first white paper on gender and voice equity in the workplace! Foundational Approaches to Gender Equity in Tech is based on industry studies along with our own survey in collaboration with AWIP (Advancing Women in Product). The results have been incorporated into this white paper, which we are releasing today in partnership with Atlassian, BlueJeans, and Freshworks.

Combining these two themes, productivity improvement and open platforms, can lead to an exponentially positive impact on a company’s bottom line. For this reason, on Monday we announced the BlueJeans App Network, which includes one of our latest partner integrations—Hugo.

Hugo, a San Francisco-based productivity software company, today announced a partnership with BlueJeans, the world’s leader in cloud video conferencing.

Today we launched the BlueJeans App Network—a hub for BlueJeans’ certified integrations that makes it easier for CIOs and organizations to connect workflows and drive productivity in the modern workplace. Hugo and BlueJeans deliver an integrated workflow that enables collaborative notetaking alongside the BlueJeans immersive meeting experience.

DARREN CHAIT is the co-founder and COO at Hugo.team – an app that provides centralized, searchable meeting notes that connect with your favorite tools. In this interview, we discuss how asynchronous communication is one of the solutions for your time zone woes, why meeting notes make your meetings more powerful, and why having a comfortable office is more than just comfort.

Darren Chait, co-founder of collaborative note-taking app Hugo, talks about the importance of keeping track of meeting notes and asynchronous collaboration.

In this episode you will learn everything about a remote company culture, how to build a positive culture and how important it is for a distributed company to have an open culture.

Darren Chait is the co-founder and COO of Hugo, a SaaS product that provides connected meeting notes for teams. There are some great lessons in this interview about figuring out your value prop and messaging, how the most straightforward solutions are often the best business opportunities and using product-led growth to drive user adoption and revenue.

This week on Product Love, I sat down with Darren Chait, the co-founder and chief operating officer of Hugo, a connected meeting notes software.

Meetings tend to be the bane of every working individual in this world. Co-founder and COO of Hugo, Darren Chait, is all about saving time and making fast-moving teams to make meeting insights shareable and actionable

In this episode, Darren Chait, Co-Founder and COO at Hugo & Co-Author of 10x Culture, as we discuss how to 10x your culture.

I recently spoke with Darren Chait from Hugo about their limit of 4-hours of meetings per week, and how meetings (specifically, sharing meeting notes openly with your organization) can positively affect your culture.

I’m Jeroen from Salesflare and this is Founder Coffee. For this thirty-fourth episode, I talked to Darren Chait, co-founder of Hugo, a platform that brings all your meeting notes together in one place and connects them with all the tools you use.

In this episode, I sit down with Darren Chait, Founder/COO of Hugo, at their San Francisco headquarters. Hugo is a connected meeting notes platform that integrates with all your favorite tools. Darren started Hugo to solve the problem of creating a more open and collaborative team culture. We discuss product analytics, pricing strategies, the importance of storytelling and much more!

Today's guest is Darren Chait, Co-Founder and COO of Hugo. He and his cofounder have just authored a new book, 10X Culture -- on the transformative principles and ideas driving fast-growing teams to leverage culture as a force for growth, which has already been cited by Eric Yuan (Founder & CEO of Zoom) as “the manual I wish I had decades ago!”.

Excited to share this conversation with Darren Chait, Co-Founder of HUGO, connected meeting notes platform that connects with your favorite tools. We talk about the future of work, what makes a great team and selling what people want.

One of the big moves in the digital workplace space over the past year was the Slack IPO. So what is it we are talking about here? Slack describes itself not just as a collaboration enabled social network, but as a collaboration hub. A collaboration hub is software that influences the way teams work together, said Darren Chait, co-founder and COO of connected meeting notes software company Hugo.

HubSpot introduces new features to marketing automation and CRM platform, and revamps its apps marketplace in hopes of driving revenue from newfound free-CRM customers. "Discoverability is critical to us -- so any effort a marketplace provides is critical -- we'll take the leads," said Darren Chait, cofounder and COO of Hugo, a San Francisco-based SaaS vendor of a meeting-notes sharing tool.

The future of the digital workplace is of course all about technology, more than anything though, it will be about how people interact with the technology. So what about the tools? Darren Chait, COO and co-founder of Hugo, which develops a meeting note platform that keeps teams connected, spends much of his time trying to understand the needs of key IT decision-makers, in particular CIOs, and how their perceptions around workplace technology are changing.

BlueJeans Network has announced the launch of the BlueJeans App Network, a hub for BlueJeans’ certified integrations, including six new partner integrations among 25 on the app. “Workplace dynamics are changing, with meetings providing the ability to either hinder performance or improve operational efficiencies and increase productivity,” said Darren Chait, co-founder at Hugo.

Workplace messaging vendor Slack recently filed a confidential registration for an IPO, becoming the latest of a group of richly valued tech enterprises to look to Wall Street. Darren Chait, COO and co-founder of Hugo, points out that collaboration and project management apps have traditionally worked their way into the enterprise through "shadow IT," in which buy-in and advocacy are promoted from the bottom up.

The ready availability cloud services has allowed users to experiment with new tools. But ease use is also creating new problems for vendors and CIOs alike. The term "SaaS fatigue" -- used by cloud vendors to describe the difficulty selling their products to oversubscribed SaaS customers -- increasingly describes how users feel, according to Darren Chait, co-founder and COO at Hugo, a meeting notes service.

AIOps can also be perceived as a layer that runs on top of DevOps tools and processes, said Darren Chait, COO and co-founder of Hugo, a provider of team collaboration tools based in San Francisco. Organizations that want to streamline data-intensive, manual and repetitive tasks -- such as ticketing -- are good candidates for an AIOps platform proof-of-concept project.

Darren Chait is co-founder of San Francisco-based Hugo, a meeting collaboration software for teams. He said that the company’s most used integrations are G Suite and Slack. He said that typically, there’s a lot of value in ecosystems, which means that once you commit to either Google or Microsoft for mail, calendar, file storage or other functionality there’s value in selecting these ecosystems for ancillary solutions like video conferencing, intranets or note-taking.

A polished elevator pitch requires a lot of rehearsal, and friends and mentors make for the most convenient audiences. But to find your blind spots, it's crucial to also practice it on people who don't know anything about your company, said Josh Lowy of Hugo, which develops collaboration software to make meeting notes more shareable

It’s pretty easy to point to tools that will improve the external results of your organization, like implementing video with Vidyard, tracking and optimizing your conversions in HubSpot, or expanding your reach with a podcast transcribed with Descript. Today we look at Hugo for meeting notes

Well known analyst firm 451 Research recently looked at Hugo and the impact it's having on the meeting technology space for its subscribers.

Despite all their challenges, meetings - both in person and online - remain one of the most important components of teamwork. They enable people to discuss ideas, make decisions, and build relationships. Unfortunately, meetings are still so plagued with problems. Hugo was again included in this year's short list along with seven others.