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Brian Halligan: belief

15 Feb 2026 Lenny's Podcast 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)

“I think people underrate their homegrown talent, almost across the board they underrate it.”

— Brian Halligan

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Brian Halligan
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belief
Recorded
15 Feb 2026
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

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…I remember that. And they finally broke, and they finally won it in 2004. And the way they won it was they had a team of a bunch homegrown, really high quality, inexpensive talent that they drafted and came through the farm system. And then they got a few free agents, like David Ortiz, that a lot of people have heard of, that they paid a fair amount of money to. Peter Martinez and Curt Schilling were kind of the canonical older been there, done that, bigger company folks. And they mixed really nicely, the culture really worked. And I think that's the key. I think people underrate their homegrown talent, almost across the board they underrate it. And I think you want that mix. You don't want to hire a whole bunch of been there, done that, and you don't want to hire [inaudible 00:14:57]. I imagine this is public, but you're now part owner of the Red Sox, is that right?…

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