Long Strange Trip hosted by Brian Halligan

11 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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11 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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In the opening of the "Long Strange Trip" podcast, Brian Halligan, co‑founder and former long‑time CEO of HubSpot, reflects on how the traditional CEO playbook is being upended by modern leaders like Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, and Brian Chesky. Fascinated by this shift, Halligan explains his mission to help startup founders evolve into scale‑up CEOs. He launched the podcast to interview friends navigating this transition—from early‑stage founders such as Anton, to scaling leaders like Parker, and executives from larger firms like David Solomon of Goldman Sachs—offering insights into the changing nature of leadership.

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Hey, I'm Brian Halligan, co founder of HubSpot and it's long time CEO. The CEO playbook I grew up with seems like it's getting torn up. Everyone from Elon and how he runs his empire, to Jensen in his 60 direct reports to Brian Chesky in his founder mode, Everything is sort of being rethought from scratch. I'm fascinated with this. I'm fascinated with thinking about how do I help startup founders turn into SC scale up CEOs. So I started this podcast. Hopefully you'll like it. I interview a lot of my friends who are going through that journey. From early stage founders like Anton, from lovable to scale ups like Parker, from Rippling to big companies like David Solomon from Goldman Sachs. Hope you enjoy it. I'll see you on the other side.