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Brian Halligan

Brian Halligan

HubSpot co-founder and Sequoia Capital partner

Every podcast episode featuring Brian Halligan that Attunex has found: 11 interviews and appearances across 5 shows between 2019 and 2026. Most often on Long Strange Trip: CEO to CEO with Brian Halligan (7). Follow Brian in Attunex to get new appearances automatically, each with an on-device transcript and summary.

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  1. Databricks’ Ali Ghodsi Never Wanted to Be CEO. Now He’s Among the Best
    Long Strange Trip: CEO to CEO with Brian Halligan

    Ali Ghodsi never wanted the CEO job. In 2015, Databricks had a wildly successful open source project, $1.5 million in revenue, and a board quietly interviewing other candidates behind his back. He…

    2026-09-17
  2. The Philosopher CEO | Clay Co-Founder Kareem Amin
    Long Strange Trip: CEO to CEO with Brian Halligan

    I had Kareem Amin all wrong. When Clay first crossed my radar, I thought he was too laid-back: no chip on his shoulder, not the hungry founder I expected to win. Clay has since exploded. Kareem…

    2026-07-23
  3. Kalshi’s Tarek Mansour vs. the Federal Government
    Long Strange Trip: CEO to CEO with Brian Halligan

    Tarek Mansour calls himself a paranoid risk manager - the guy who can list 20 ways a hot air balloon will go down before it leaves the ground. Then he bet his entire company on suing its own…

    2026-07-09
  4. David Senra: Mute the World and Build Your Own
    Long Strange Trip: CEO to CEO with Brian Halligan

    David Senra has spent a decade reading the biographies of 400+ founders for his podcast Founders - and lately he's started interviewing the living ones face to face. He joins me to share what all of…

    2026-06-04
  5. Notion’s Ivan Zhao: The Refounder
    Long Strange Trip: CEO to CEO with Brian Halligan

    Ivan Zhao, founder and CEO of Notion, joins me to introduce a new contender in the founder mode debate: jazz mode. Ivan has a different take than Jack Dorsey's circular org chart or Brian Armstrong's…

    2026-05-21
  6. Surviving Twitter's Growing Pains: Ex-CEO Dick Costolo
    Long Strange Trip: CEO to CEO with Brian Halligan

    Dick Costolo took over as CEO of Twitter in 2010, inheriting what he calls "the drama queen of hypergrowth companies." Hired as the adult in the room behind founders Jack Dorsey and Ev Williams, Dick…

    2026-05-07
  7. What Founders Can Learn About Excellence From MIT President Sally Kornbluth
    Long Strange Trip: CEO to CEO with Brian Halligan

    Sally Kornbluth is president of MIT and one of the best crisis leaders I've come across. Within a year of starting the job, she got summoned – not invited – to testify before Congress alongside the…

    2026-04-16
  8. Ben Horowitz On What Makes a Great Founder
    The a16z Show

    On the show Long Strange Trip, Sequoia Capital partner Brian Halligan speaks with a16z’s Ben Horowitz about what separates great founder CEOs from everyone else. Ben explains why first-time founders…

    2026-03-03
  9. Sequoia CEO coach: Why it’s never been easier to start a company, and never been harder to scale one | Brian Halligan (co-founder, HubSpot)
    Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth

    Brian Halligan co-founded HubSpot, ran it as CEO for about 15 years, and now coaches Sequoia’s fastest-growing founders as their in-house CEO coach. We discuss: 1. His LOCKS framework for evaluating…

    2026-02-15
  10. Rage Baiting is for Losers, Everett Randle’s 5x Controversy | Jordan Nanos, Brian Halligan, Dr. Fei-Fei Li, Scott Sanders, Jeremy Allaire, Vladimir Novakovski, Andrew D'Souza, Parag Agrawal
    TBPN

    (00:43) - Rage Baiting is for Losers (27:45) - Everett Randle’s 5x Controversy (38:07) - Rage Baiting is for Losers (42:08) - Dwarkesh Patel’s Satya Interview (01:00:04) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions…

    2025-11-12
  11. #125 - Brian Halligan and Kevin Hale
    Y Combinator Startup Podcast

    Brian Halligan is the CEO and cofounder of HubSpot. HubSpot builds software for marketing, sales, and customer service. You can try it out at HubSpot.com.Kevin Hale is a Partner at YC and cofounder…

    2019-05-08