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Canva Slashes Growth | Talent Exodus at Google | Revolut's $50B CEO Package | Musk's $55B Terrafab Aug 12, 2026 · 1 mention

Thrive Raises New $10B Fund | OpenAI Buys OpenClaw | Stripe at $140B: Is Adyen Wildly Undervalued? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 19, 2026 · 3 mentions

The SaaS Massacre: Public Market Collapse |Microsoft Lost $360B & NVIDIA’s $100B Dispute with OpenAI Feb 5, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 41:38 unnamed speaker I love Brian, even though he's not there.

Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg: How to Make Mega Deals | Lessons from Rabois, Halligan & Grady · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 19, 2026 · 2 mentions

20Sales: John McMahon on How to Hire, Train & Retain the Best Sales Reps | How Sales Changes in a World of AI | Sales Lessons from Snowflake and MongoDB | How to Create and Drive a Sales Process with Urgency Nov 28, 2025 · 4 mentions

Is a $4.5BN Exit Enough in VC? & Harvey Raises $150M & Why Google is a Buy and Amazon is a Sell · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 6, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:02 Jason Lemkin and I, I kind of posted on Twitter as the end of the air and Brian Halligan was like, yeah, a lot more going to retire soon.

Why VC Today is Worse than 2021 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 23, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:14 Jason Calacanis No, I, I mean, um, you know, Brian Halligan this morning was, um, quote tweeting benchmark about benchmark one coming up on 20 years and how it was a great vintage and, and wines, uh, great wines age or whatever it was.

Cerebras CEO, Andrew Feldman on Why Raise $1BN and Delay the IPO & Why NVIDIA’s Worried About Growth · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 6, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:12 Harry Stebbings I have Brian Halligan, the CEO of HubSpot on the show recently, and he actually taught me the importance of specifically getting fidelity in both pre IPO and when you IPO, just because of the signal that it sends.

Are Burn Multiples BS in an AI World? & Sam Altman Needs $1TRN of Energy · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 2, 2025 · 1 mention

Anthropic Raises $13BN & OpenAI Buys Statsig for $1.1BN All Stock · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 4, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 6:30 Harry Stebbings We have Brian Halligan on from HubSpot, and he was talking about the central role that Fidelity play, and I actually wasn't quite as aware as I'm sure Jason and Rory were as how important and strategic that was in terms of aligning them…
  • ▶ 48:00 unnamed speaker And that answer, that very cogent answer is, Harry, why everyone in theory will argue this, and then when you're the guy on point with your life's work on the line, just like Halligan, and you're like, do I want to be an experimental baby…

Sam Altman's Masterplan or a Gift to Anthropic? Palantir & Shopify Crush Earnings · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 14, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:18:31 Jason Lemkin Um, you know, we had Brian, Brian Halligan was so good right before if folks that got this far and haven't watched him, that was S tier, go watch that one.

Elon’s Empire: SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink After the Storm & Anduril’s $2.6BN Power Move · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 12, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 48:59 Jason Lemkin Talking about HubSpot and Brian Halligan, I mean, he made, I remember I asked him when, when was the downturn in SAS?

Rippling vs. Deel Lawsuit: WTF Happens Now? The Future of the Late Stage Private Market · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 22, 2025 · 1 mention

Elias Torres, Co-Founder and CEO @ Agency: What No One Tells You About Selling Your Company · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 21, 2025 · 3 mentions

Yamini Rangan, CEO @ HubSpot: How HubSpot Competes Against Salesforce · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 17, 2025 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 0:44 Harry Stebbings Yeah, Amini, listen, I spoke to Brian, I spoke to Pat, I spoke to Jay Simons, Claire Hughes-Johnson.
  • ▶ 1:28 Yamini Rangan I think for me, um, I'd been at the company for about a year, and I always looked at, like, the decisions that Brian and Dharmesh made in starting and scaling the company.
  • ▶ 7:44 Harry Stebbings Describe one thing that you've changed at HubSpot culturally or strategically since becoming CEO that might not have happened under Brian and his leadership. 3 times in the scene

Jake Saper, GP @ Emergence Capital: "We Sold Salesforce Early and Lost Out on Billions" · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 10, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 3:46 Jake Saper Brian Halligan walks over, who's then the CEO of HubSpot and gives me a hard time. 2 times in the scene

Jeetu Mahtani, Sales Leader @Hubspot: How and When to Go International and Crush It | E1207 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 27, 2024 · 12 mentions

Jason Lemkin: Crowdstrike, WTF Happens From Here? Wiz Rejects Google’s $23BN Acquisition Offer|E1181 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 24, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 14:25 Jason Lemkin You can't, you know, Brian Halligan, I think right when Figma, um, struggled said on, on Twitter that this is the end of big M&A, right?

Saam Motamedi: Why Series B Won’t Make Money & Why $1M ARR is a BS Milestone for Series A | E1177 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 15, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 9:30 Saam Motamedi I saw a tweet from Brian, the founder of HubSpot, maybe yesterday or today, where he said like, hey, people used to say HubSpot was a wrapper on a database, right?
  • ▶ 45:14 Harry Stebbings You know, when you look at like Dalmash and Brian's pivot with CRMs, with HubSpot, a market that no one fucking foresaw them going into and is now, you know, a seven hundred million market for them.

Mark Roberge: The Framework for How Startups Should Scale into the Enterprise -Stage 2 Capital|E1176 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 12, 2024 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 2:00 Mark Roberge And that's where it serendipitously kicked in because Halligan was the co-founder and he is a sales guy, you know, and he was like, if we're going to use you one day a week, a consultant, I want you to sell. 8 times in the scene

Pat Grady: Sequoia Partner on Investing Lessons from Doug Leone, Roelof Botha and Alfred Lin | E1174 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 8, 2024 · 14 mentions

  • ▶ 12:48 Pat Grady And when he saw Brian and Darmesh, he saw something very special. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 15:47 Pat Grady Um, I have, I have lots of favorites, but, um, I will choose Brian Halligan again, because I think if you look at, so by comparison, if you look at Snowflake, amazing product in an amazing market, right? 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 37:57 Pat Grady In the smallest possible number of people so that when one of those people happens to stumble across the next Fred Luddy, the next Todd McKinnon, the next Brian Halligan, they're going to give that founder the sort of outlier experience…
  • ▶ 46:32 Pat Grady So for example, Carl Eschenbach, or Brian Halligan for that matter, 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 48:18 Pat Grady Halligan's amazing. 3 times in the scene

Jason Lemkin: Why Pricing is Worse Than Ever and There is More Funding Than Ever | E1157 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 27, 2024 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 29:57 Jason Lemkin It's not even, distribution helped them, but it's very interesting if you listen to Dharmesh and Brian, they had some distribution, but remember, back in the day, it was a single product company selling to marketers.
  • ▶ 53:20 Jason Lemkin And, um, I know that, you know, then sometimes when Dharmesh and Brian talk about HubSpot in the early days, they're a little, I know they, I know they're, and Dharmesh is an engineer, I hear a little bit of confusion on what the monthly… 2 times in the scene

Chandra Narayanan: Top 5 Lessons from Leading Analytics at Facebook | E1126 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 13, 2024 · 2 mentions

Scott Williamson: Hiring the Best Product People in Five Steps, Why the Best PMs are Writers | E1118 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 21, 2024 · 1 mention

Erik Allebest: Scaling to $100M Revenue, 150M Members and 700 People, All with No Vc Funding | E1113 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 7, 2024 · 1 mention

David Tisch & Terrence Rohan: Biggest Misconceptions & Hardest Truths About Seed Investing | E1112 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 5, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:27:27 Harry Stebbings So I have, so I have Brian Halligan, the CEO of HubSpot on the show, and he said that it was a absolute needle mover having Sequoia, the level of talent they were able to get, the customers they were able to get.

Jason Lemkin: Predictions for 2024 - What Does a Trump Administration do for Startups? | E1099 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 4, 2024 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 5:25 Jason Lemkin I mean, you've talked with them as well, but when I got to interview Brian and Dharmesh, the co-founders together, what I really, the one thing I really learned was really, really, really, really going long.
  • ▶ 6:44 Jason Lemkin Brian, Brian did a, uh, an interview recently where, you know, he actually did sell a bunch of his stock pre-IPO, I think, to Sequoia, and he said it was the most expensive decision he'd ever made, so we need a little bit of money.
  • ▶ 1:02:00 Jason Lemkin On the Figma thing, you know, listen, I'm not a total expert, but I have been a VP in a top tech company, and I, and I, um, and I know a lot of folks like Brian Halligan we talked about said that Figma thing will be like, um,
  • ▶ 1:15:22 Jason Lemkin It's gotta be like that Darmesh, Brian from HubSpot where they're like, we had a decent outcome.

Tooey Courtemanche: From Construction Worker to Billionaire CEO | E1090 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Dec 4, 2023 · 1 mention

Roundtable #5 with Jack Altman, Auren Hoffman, Jason Lemkin, Harry Stebbings | E1077 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 3, 2023 · 1 mention

Brian Balfour: Startup Growth Secrets from HubSpot; Distribution Stratagies; Impact of AI | E1049 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 16, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 35:03 Brian Balfour And the way that the, I did not come up with this, this really came from Dharmash and Halligan, the two founders, which was, um, the way that we established 2 times in the scene

Hubspot CMO Kipp Bodnar: Why the Best Marketers Think Like VCs | 20VC w/ Harry Stebbings #930 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 28, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:33 Kipp Bodnar Let me to meet Brian Dermesh at HubSpot, which was amazing, kind of, and they were like, Hey, why don't you come help us? 2 times in the scene

HubSpot Founder Dharmesh Shah: The Ultimate Guide to Company Culture | E896 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 13, 2022 · 19 mentions

  • ▶ 0:34 Harry Stebbings Kristen, is the reason that you and Brian got together in the first place, scouting him at an MIT Sloan cocktail party. 9 times in the scene
  • ▶ 9:13 Dharmesh Shah So when HubSpot started, first it was Brian and I, we met at, uh, in grad school, as I mentioned, um, and then, so he was a CEO.
  • ▶ 14:50 Dharmesh Shah And I was kind of volunteered into it by my co-founder, um, uh, you know, Brian, who had gone to this, uh, kind of CEO. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 31:43 Dharmesh Shah And, and this is one of the thousand things that my co-founder Brian and I, like, completely agreed on. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 38:39 Dharmesh Shah So I told you when Ryan and I started the company, kind of the, one of the top two reasons we started at HubSpot was we wanted to work together.
  • ▶ 1:09:05 Dharmesh Shah And the reason I got into it, I'll tell you the quick story, um,

20 Sales: How To Build Sales Teams with a Product-Led-Growth GTM, What is a Sales Hiring Scorecard and How To Construct Yours & How To Structure the Onboarding Process for all New Sales Hires with Dannie Herzberg, Partner @ Sequoia Capital Feb 2, 2022 · 1 mention

20VC: Sequoia's Pat Grady on What Sequoia Is Focused On Today, How Sequoia Think About Investment Decision-Making Processes & Why It Is Important To Trade A Few Points of Efficiency for Culture When It Comes To Attribution Jul 1, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 23:21 Pat Grady Nobody had articulated that as well as Brian and Dharmesh, and we just kind of wanted to be in business with the founders.
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