
Long Strange Trip: CEO to CEO with Brian Halligan
Hosted by Brian Halligan · Sequoia Capital
4.7from 82 ratings
- 21
- Episodes
- 16
- Transcribed
- 82
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2025
- First episode
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.

8 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Luca Ferrari: The Operating System Behind Bending Spoons

17 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Databricks’ Ali Ghodsi Never Wanted to Be CEO. Now He’s Among the Best

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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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.4 / 5
- 30 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 52 ratings
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