Brian Halligan
Brian Halligan is the co-founder and executive chairman of HubSpot, a publicly traded CRM and marketing software company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is currently a partner and senior advisor at Sequoia Capital, where he coaches startup founders on scaling, and a senior lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management, where he teaches a course on scaling entrepreneurial ventures. He is best known for coining the term "inbound marketing" and co-authoring the book of the same name with Dharmesh Shah, and he hosts the podcast Long Strange Trip: CEO to CEO with Brian Halligan. He also co-founded Propeller Ventures, a climate tech venture fund focused on ocean innovation investments.
“Alfred Lin at Sequoia gives me crap for this still. I had obviously had it wrong.”
Source→“We had a lot of agencies interested. And I remember it was like two, three years in... he started calling on them. And you could just look at the histogram of the numbers... he was like 4x the next one in revenue.”
Source→“I had Jack Dorsey on a few weeks ago. You two rhyme. He's an original thinker. He's not central casting for CEOs.”
Source→“We didn't listen to the customer like the first seven years. I was the customer. We just blocked out what they wanted. We built what I wanted.”
Source→“I interviewed Parker Conrad from Rippling and he's similar as a lot of founders. And the way it kind of strikes me is like the bigger HubSpot got almost all the important things cut across all those organizations.”
Source→“It's never been easier to start. Man, it's never been harder to scale because like in every little micro segment, if there's a little traction, like there's a hundred competitors two days later.”
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