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How to be a CEO when AI breaks all the old playbooks | Sequoia CEO Coach Brian Halligan Feb 15, 2026 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 1:09 Lenny Rachitsky After leaving HubSpot last year, he became the in-house CEO coach at Sequoia, where he brings together dozens of top CEOs to learn from each other.
  • ▶ 5:37 Lenny Rachitsky You're the, you're Sequoia's in-house CO coach.
  • ▶ 18:02 Brian Halligan The C is something I wouldn't have thought of, but this is a Sequoia thing, like chip on the shoulder. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 21:49 Brian Halligan I've noticed that, so another little rubric I have, and I don't see a lot of these, but like Brett Taylor's one, there's a few out there that are in Sequoia's portfolio.
  • ▶ 47:23 Lenny Rachitsky Sometimes they have you in their corner if they're lucky at Sequoia.
  • ▶ 1:13:32 Lenny Rachitsky Or do they have to be a Sequoia founder? 2 times in the scene

We replaced our sales team with 20 AI agents—here’s what happened next | Jason Lemkin (SaaStr) Jan 1, 2026 · 2 mentions

“I deliberately understaff every project” | Leadership lessons from Rippling’s $16B journey Dec 28, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:29:52 Matt McGinnis It was recommended to me by Brian Schreier at Sequoia when he was on my board at my previous company.

The paths to power: How to grow your influence and advance your career | Jeffrey Pfeffer (Stanford) Jun 13, 2024 · 1 mention

M&A, competition, pricing, and investing | Julia Schottenstein (dbt Labs) Jul 13, 2023 · 1 mention

Taxi mafias, cash vaults & 100% MoM growth: The story of SEA’s biggest startup | Kevin Aluwi (Gojek) Mar 26, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 53:19 Kevin Aluwi No, I, and our, our investors at the time, uh, Sequoia is one of our investors at the time told us that this was the craziest, the craziest growth story that they've ever heard of, uh, in the world.

How to work through fear, give hard feedback, and doing layoffs with grace | Matt Mochary Nov 10, 2022 · 1 mention

Persuasive communication and managing up | Wes Kao (Maven, altMBA, Section4) Aug 28, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 12:17 Wes Kao Um, I think the speed that we shipped before I, I, you know, was at a Sequoia backed ad tech startup and I thought, oh, like I know what shipping fast is.
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