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Long Strange Trip: CEO to CEO with Brian Halligan

Sequoia Capital
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Artificial Intelligence
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Elon Musk
Jensen Huang
Brian Chesky
David Solomon
Opendoor
MIT
Notion
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Gamestop
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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.

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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 them actually have in common, and it isn't what Sil... more

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 player-coach approach. He thinks hierarchy is huma... more

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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 spent five years dragging Twitter from a chaotic c... more

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 presidents of Harvard and UPenn. You know how that w... more

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Ivan Zhao
Co-founder and CEO of Notion, referred to as the refounding founder.
Notion
Episode: Notion’s Ivan Zhao: The Refounder
Dick Costolo
Former CEO of Twitter
Twitter (former CEO)
Episode: Surviving Twitter's Growing Pains: Ex-CEO Dick Costolo
Sally Kornbluth
President of MIT
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Episode: What Founders Can Learn About Excellence From MIT President Sally Kornbluth
Jack Dorsey
Founder of Twitter and Block
Block (formerly Twitter)
Episode: Jack Dorsey: Every Company Can Now Be a Mini-AGI
Roelof Botha
Sequoia partner, on Jack Dorsey's board at Block
Sequoia Capital
Episode: Jack Dorsey: Every Company Can Now Be a Mini-AGI
Tom Hale
CEO of Oura Ring
Oura
Episode: Oura’s Tom Hale: What People Don’t Tell You About Being CEO
Kaz Nejatian
New CEO of Opendoor, former CTO at Shopify
Opendoor
Episode: The Most Founder Mode CEO Working Today Isn’t the Founder: Opendoor’s Kaz Nejatian
Ben Horowitz
Co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, renowned investor
Andreessen Horowitz
Episode: Ben Horowitz On What Makes a Great Founder
Bill Anderson
CEO of Bayer, focusing on organizational transformation and agility.
Bayer
Episode: Bayer’s Bill Anderson: Turning a 168 Year-Old Tanker Like a Speedboat

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Brian Halligan
Host of Long Strange Trip: CEO to CEO with Brian Halligan; Co-founder and longtime CEO of HubSpot; Sequoia partner as guest on the show

Reviews

4.5 out of 5 stars from 36 ratings
  • I love it! (+ feedback)

    This is my favorite podcast! Obviously this is meant for CEOs/founders but as a VP level operator who reports up to a CEO at a high growth tech company (Sequoia backed!), I listen for insights into how CEOs make decisions so I can in turn be a more effective leader/direct report. I’m sure many other folks are doing the same. Would love more conversations around what CEOs need from their deputies so they can lead more effectively. Either way, I love this podcast and Go Sox!

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    RoxWM
    United States3 months ago
  • Brian rules

    Great pod

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    SteveFoxProp
    United States3 months ago
  • More startup founders please

    Winning concept - guest calibre is excellent and it’s cool that Brian can relate things back to his personal experience. Lean into the founder access afforded by Sequoia and Brian’s network. Way more interesting to hear from the next generation of legendary founders than from super established companies. Winston episode was the best. Wish the Mati and Anton episodes were two separate episodes

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Jack-Hannah
    United States3 months ago
  • Great insights but flow could be better.

    I recently started listening to this podcast and ripped through all of the episodes because of the good content. I do enjoy it a lot and I hope it continues with many other guest speakers. Some feedback, I did feel at times that answers were cut short from the CEOs, and it would be nice to hear their full answer. As well, the questions could be a bit more structured; the free-flow conversation is nice at times, but other times, as a listener, I’d prefer to hear as much useful information as poss... more

    Apple Podcasts
    4
    Jesse Docherty
    United States5 months ago
  • Good Questions

    I have really enjoyed listening. One thing Brian does good at is probing answers and really getting down to root cause or experience. However, Brian could improve by letting guests finish their thoughts before asking thoughtful follow up questions

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Nakentnsooswnnrntif
    United States5 months ago

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Flow can feel a bit loose; more structured questions could help pull longer answers.
Guests feel respected and provide actionable leadership takeaways.
The host probes deeply and asks questions you'd want answered as a leader.

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Surviving Twitter's Growing Pains: Ex-CEO Dick Costolo
Q: How did you handle the pressures of rapid growth and public scrutiny?
By focusing on priorities, transparently communicating problems and progress, and continuously aligning the team around shared goals while keeping a calm, direct leadership style.
Surviving Twitter's Growing Pains: Ex-CEO Dick Costolo
Q: What were the biggest cultural changes you imposed?
Moving away from ceremonial principles and meaningless duchies toward clear DRIs, fewer required processes, and a management-by-w walking-around approach to stay connected with execution.
Surviving Twitter's Growing Pains: Ex-CEO Dick Costolo
Q: How did you restructure decision rights to avoid endless approvals?
He implemented a 'bias to yes' approach, limiting cascading approvals to direct managers and enabling teams to act quickly while still maintaining accountability.
Surviving Twitter's Growing Pains: Ex-CEO Dick Costolo
Q: What did you do initially when you took over to calm Twitter's chaos?
Dick Costolo describes prioritizing velocity and decoupling decision-making from slow, consensus-driven processes, pushing authority down the org chart and insisting on faster execution.
Oura’s Tom Hale: What People Don’t Tell You About Being CEO
Q: What was harder than you thought about being a CEO, and how did you handle the opposition to subscription pricing?
He explains that the hardest part is the responsibility and stress, not the glamour, and details how the subscription shift faced initial customer backlash but ultimately proved effective through continued value delivery and careful management of the upgrade path for existing hardware customers.

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The show features candid conversations with CEOs and founders about leading companies through growth, disruption, and transformation. Episodes frequently cover pragmatic leadership lessons, scaling from startup to scale-up, maintaining culture across geographies, and managing risk, with a strong emphasis on decision-making, transparency, and building resilient organizations. Guests range from AI-native startups to century-old enterprises, often discussing product strategy shifts, go-to-market partnerships, and the realities of guiding a company through crises, M&A, or public markets. Listeners can expect actionable takeaways on hiring, leadership style, and sustaining momentum on the long road from early traction to sustained impact.

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2. Dick Costolo
3. Sally Kornbluth
4. Jack Dorsey
5. Roelof Botha
6. Tom Hale
7. Kaz Nejatian
8. Ben Horowitz

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