Brian Halligan avoids management chores to focus entirely on HubSpot product
Brian Halligan · Near Death Accidents and Hitting $1B ARR with Brian Halligan, Founder and Exec Chairman of HubSpot · Oct 14, 2021 · at 11:50
HubSpot co-founder Brian Halligan describes how he restructured his day-to-day executive role following his near-death accident.
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“The other thing I would say is I'm still involved with HubSpot. So I'm still like, today I've had four HubSpot calls. So I'm not, I'm very much engaged with HubSpot. I'm just not engaged in stuff I don't like to do. Like, I don't like doing one-on-ones with people and doing performance reviews and talking about their salary and stuff like that. I really, I'm not great at it, but I'm able to work on the product stuff and the vision stuff the stuff that really motivates me.”
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