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Published · transcript-backedBrian Halligan: recommendation
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)
“Well, I would say if you are a CEO and you're interested in scaling, I think the Halliganism posts is all the mistakes I made in my 15 years of being CEO, I tried to summarize them there, to help you avoid them.”
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- Speaker
- Brian Halligan
- Attribution
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- Claim type
- recommendation
- Recorded
- 15 Feb 2026
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
Transcript context
…Brian, I feel like I could chat with you for hours, there's a whole list of Halliganisms I'm going to link to that we didn't even touch on. But before we get to our very exciting lightning round, is there anything else that you think we should chat about? Anything you want to leave [inaudible 01:02:48] with? Well, I would say if you are a CEO and you're interested in scaling, I think the Halliganism posts is all the mistakes I made in my 15 years of being CEO, I tried to summarize them there, to help you avoid them. And I have a pod, you should first listen to Lenny's pod because it's amazing, but I have a pod just for CEOs, called Long Strange Trip. Where I interview, I interview CEOs about this. So, Lenny's interviewing me about being a CEO, I get to interview other people about being... I'm kind of a CEO geek these days. And the name of the podcast is a Grateful Dead reference, which-…
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