Brian Halligan

@HubSpot co-founder @bhalligan is getting ready to face his spiciest challenge yet: HubSpot Hot Ones with @seanseaevans on the #INBOUND25 Main Stage 🔥 🔥 🔥 Will he be able to take the heat? Find out on 9/5!

ChatGPT is a better colleague than most of my colleagues at this point.

Sequoia Wants It Hard (or What Not to do When Fundraising)

"Likability is a Jail" by Alex Karp, Co-founder and CEO of Palantir

Hot topics at my CEO Tables this month: 1. CEO best practices on social media 2. Scaling engineering hiring 3. App to Suite brainstorm 4. Shaun Maguire

Problem I want a startup to solve for me/ I trained an avatar (text, voice, video) on Delphi with all my articles, podcasts, lectures, tweets, etc. It is pretty good, but its trained on all external stuff. What I want to do is further train it on my entire email inbox and all…

In almost all walks of work and life, I prefer folks who are process light + content heavy to folks who are process heavy + content light.

It is amazing to me how little the markets are moved by relatively major world events.

Running an AI startup today using a SaaS-era playbook or even previously “best-in-class” speed is like gaming on dial-up. By the time your GTM feels comfortably dialed-in or your strategic bets seem sure, the match is over. Markets are moving (and being won) at meme speed.…

Interesting slide from the Coatue deck. Interesting test of a firms commitment/investment in AI. Are you getting more efficient? Do any of your execs argue they could get by with "fewer" headcount? Quite a high-bar test.

So good

Being motived and passionate aren't enough. The best founders are completely obsessed.

“Most CEO’s hate their work but love their job.” James Corden.

Klarna gets attention for efficiency gains—we shrank from ~5500 to ~3000 people in two years. But I have always highlighted AI is only part of that story. Here is how we got away from analysis/paralysis and into customer obsession and centricity:

Woo hoo! I'm ludicrously excited about the @OpenAI announcement today that ChatGPT now has a connector built right in for HubSpot to bring data in for deep research. Super cool to see the HubSpot logo inside the world's most popular AI app.

I like @dwarkesh_sp’s take on the future of the CEO: open.spotify.com/episode/2jC3Ch…

I really like @FoundersPodcast. They recently interviewed the host on what he has learned from getting inside the heads of hundreds of great founders. He summarized the super power in 1 word: FOCUS.

If a founder brags about having “a balanced life,” I assume they’re not serious about winning.

Nothing better than sending voice notes. Nothing worse than receiving them.

"If you want to be great, walk the rope without a boss and without a net." @naval