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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 don't know any of the founders I work with that have work-life balance. By the way, this is not something I recommend.”
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- 15 Feb 2026
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…And I know you've written about this, just like balance for CEO is not, you should not have work-life balance if you want to be incredibly successful. I don't know if that's always true, but just... I don't know, how do you talk about that to founders? I don't know any of the founders I work with that have work-life balance. By the way, this is not something I recommend. I didn't have it, I don't think my co-founder, Dharmesh had it. The only CEO I know, and he's unusual in this way, is Kareem from Clay. He's like, "Nope, you need balance, take the weekends..." He's got a different mindset. I'm going to have him on my pod to talk about his mindset. But he's sort of the outlier, everyone else is really, really obsessed, and they really don't have much of a life. It did take them a long time to find product market fit [inaudible 00:50:25]-…
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