Long Strange Trip: CEO to CEO with Brian Halligan

Long Strange Trip: CEO to CEO with Brian Halligan

Hosted by Brian Halligan · Sequoia Capital

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21
Episodes
16
Transcribed
82
Ratings
Bi-weekly
Cadence
2025
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About Long Strange Trip: CEO to CEO with Brian Halligan

The CEO rulebook is getting rewritten. Brian Halligan, Sequoia partner and co-founder and longtime CEO of HubSpot, sits down with some of the CEOs who are defining the new one—from hypergrowth AI-native startups to 150-year-old behemoths. Whether you’re an early-stage founder or a scale-up CEO, Brian will be digging for advice you can use on the long strange trip of your own CEO journey.

Publisher
Sequoia Capital
Category
business
Language
en
Explicit
No
First episode
11 Nov 2025
Latest episode
8 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

16 of 21 episodes have a transcript.

  1. 8 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

    Luca Ferrari: The Operating System Behind Bending Spoons

  2. 17 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

    Databricks’ Ali Ghodsi Never Wanted to Be CEO. Now He’s Among the Best

  3. 23 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

    The Philosopher CEO | Clay Co-Founder Kareem Amin

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Luca Ferrari: The Operating System Behind Bending Spoons

Published 8 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And so when you have access to this caliber of people, you can run a business with 20 people that someone else would need 200 people for. And so that alone will give you both cost efficiencies and the opportunity to innovate faster, improve monetization faster. So that's an element, for instance, of our advantage vis-a-vis these companies being run as standalone or businesses being run as standalone companies. We have invested a lot over the past decade in building powerful proprietary technologies do everything pretty much, I mean, across the board that you need to run a digital business. They're natively integrated with one another. […]

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  • Luca Ferrari
  • Ali Ghodsi
  • Kareem Amin
  • Tarek Mansour
  • Luana Lopes Lara

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