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Co-founder HubSpot | Sequoia | Propeller | MIT | author. My clone: delphi.ai/bhalligan My CEO interviews: tinyurl.com/CEOLongStrange…
The Thought Leader
Brian Halligan is a visionary startup guru, sharing hard-earned wisdom on scaling businesses from zero to billions. He’s a CEO whisperer who distills complex entrepreneurial truths into bite-sized tweets loaded with insights. His content feels like a masterclass in leadership, AI trends, and startup culture, sprinkled with a no-nonsense realism.
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Helping Startups Win by doing things most startups don't. Serial Cofounder. Fractional COO, Adviser, Product/Mktg No BS: Truth + Kindness #SoCalVenturePipeline
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Product leader (ex-Meta, Walmartlabs); co-founder/ceo Navis Health Ai; Father/husband; 1% better daily; Views are mine & loosely held.
YC Founder • Advisor/Coach • Investor • Scaled to millions w/ 0 followers. follow for real founder takes.
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Entrepreneur, CEO @ Teiko | “We put the ‘trap’ in ‘entrapreneur’” -Central Cee
Founder of @Category_VC. Investing early in enterprise software startups. Ordinary thinker. Athlete. Dad. Strong opinions about sneakers.
Building something "boring" prev: Co-Founder @joincrescentco (acquired by @betterup)
Investor at Operator Collective - helping founders in AI transformation (Seed+A) / Prev. early Uber / Ohio native / Small but mighty Marathoner
Investing & Tech. Open Sourced. →Newsletter/Podcast @Sourceryy | HUGE Fan @brexhq & @Turingcom
Write on business with @workweekinc. Building a privacy-first AI research app (Bearly.AI) and LLM API management platform (Liona.AI)
Co-founder and CEO of @BetHog. $HOG airdrop loading! Co-founder of @betdexlabs and @fanduel. Trader in respectable meme coins
Sequoia partner, BC alum, Wyoming native
Deeply researched product, growth, and career advice
Head Capital Formation & Talent @AltimeterCap. I talk about what I learn from LPs. Mom is what I do best. No Invest Advice Views My Own
Founder & VC @socialimpactcap, a firm working on the hardest problems from the earliest stages. Incubator of companies, lady industrialist, and a mother. e/acc
Started/sold some startups. Founder + president of Hampton @hamptonfounders. Host My First Million podcast on the side.
Co-Founder @andthenchat (a16z SR005), Emmy-Winning Showrunner, co-creator @aiforhumansshow made a career of hurtling emergent media into established spaces
Partner at @Sentinel_bridge // deep-tech entrepreneur // founding CEO Consumer Physics, makers of @my_scio // bio: linkedin.com/in/drorsharon
Brian’s tweet count suggests he’s on a mission to prove that sleep is for the weak — maybe one day he’ll write a thread on how to run a $25 billion company and still get a good night’s rest, but until then, we’re all just caffeine-fueled extras in the Brian Halligan show.
Authoring a definitive playbook that captures the entire entrepreneurial journey from $0 to a $25 billion company, and positioning himself as a go-to CEO mentor in the hyper-competitive startup world.
Brian’s life purpose is to reshape the startup ecosystem by guiding founders through the chaos of scaling, fostering innovation, and encouraging bold, data-driven leadership. He aims to elevate the conversation around entrepreneurship and help others avoid common pitfalls on their journey to building monumental companies.
He values authenticity in leadership, relentless focus on growth, and the importance of lean, homegrown teams driving transformative success. Brian believes in transparency and sharing practical knowledge openly to empower founders to make smart decisions, including knowing when to sell and when to scale aggressively.
His greatest strength is deep industry knowledge combined with the ability to communicate complex leadership strategies clearly and concisely. This makes him not just a thought leader, but a trusted mentor for founders navigating hyper-growth and market shifts.
Brian’s straightforward, relentless pace and focus on hard truths might come off as intimidating or overly intense to more cautious or empathetic founders. Sometimes his high expectations for 80+ hour weeks risk undervaluing balance and founder burnout.
To grow his audience on X, Brian should incorporate more interactive content, like live Q&A sessions or polls on trending startup issues, to foster community engagement and make his audience feel part of the conversation, not just observers.
Fun fact: Brian has tweeted 14,513 times, practically creating a treasure trove of actionable startup wisdom—basically a CEO’s encyclopedia in tweet form!
Top tweets of Brian Halligan
The SVB, FTX, and OpenAI debacles have proven that boards are underrated. Here are some things I’ve learned about building boards from @HubSpot that I hope might help other founders. 1. VC’s “can be” excellent board members. Yes, they are self-interested, but their interests very likely align with the founders’ interests. They are on several other boards so have legit experience in the job. …Btw, if @JoshuaKushner and @VKhosla were on OpenAI’s board, I can’t imagine @Sama getting fired like that. 2. HubSpot’s Series A and B investors had board seats. Both of them were both former CEO’s and their mentorship of me as a first time CEO was exceptionally helpful. …Try to find vc’s who have been operators, if you can. 3. Good independent board members are worth their weight in gold. Gail Goodman was our first. She taught us a lot about scaling a business in those board meetings. She also would tamper the vc’s in the board meetings if they got too aggressive with me. 4. Don’t hire “press release independent board members.” Don’t hire former politicians, former secretaries of _____, movie stars, or athletes. …Elizabeth Holmes fell into this tempting trap. 5. Avoid hiring independents who have only worked at XYZ giant company — they won’t understand the mountain you are trying to climb after spending their whole career on top of that mountain. 6. Given what we’ve all seen with OpenAI, it’s obvious, but you want independent board members with experience. I might be wrong, but if Reid Hoffman were still on their board, I can’t imagine it would have shaken out this way. Sometimes a lack of experience can be overcome with raw brains and first principled thinking in a senior hire, but not when hiring an independent board member. 7. Build a good board and don’t worry about “retaining control.” They “should” have the right to fire you. That accountability is healthy for you and your company. Trust me, the last thing “an experienced” set of board members wants to do is fire the ceo/founder and if they do, it will be after lots of feedback over a long period of time. …If they fire you, in a very very high percentage of cases, it was probably the right thing for your company. 8. Board members should act like grandparents, not parents. If they act like parents, they are too involved. 9. Every year, you should run an anonymous 360 review of each board member (including yourself). That feedback should be delivered by you and your expectation should be that they work on the feedback they got, even the vc’s. Feedback is the breakfast of champions. 10. As the ceo/chairperson of your board, you “can” replace a board member. We had one of our vc board members replaced by a different partner from that same fund who was a better fit. Be careful when doing this, though. 11. You should replace independents when your company outgrows them. They should see it coming through the 360 reviews. Sam Bankman Fried and Elizabeth Holmes would have likely been fired if they had a proper board, but wouldn’t be in prison. Sam Altman would have avoided this major headache if he had a proper board. Sent from my iPhone
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