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HubSpot reverses course after customers reject data sharing
HubSpot's attempt to build a shared enrichment pool across customer accounts exposed a broader tension in how vendors profit from data flowing through their own platforms. Customers contribute business contact, engagement, and tracking data simply by using the product, so once that data becomes an input for a commercial dataset sold back to every other account, including competitors, the value exchange shifts without customers getting anything new in return. HubSpot's five enrichment controls only governed whether an account's own records got refreshed, not whether its data flowed into the shared pool, making participation effectively mandatory.
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