{"podcast":{"title":"Long Strange Trip: CEO to CEO with Brian Halligan","slug":"long-strange-trip-ceo-to-ceo-with-brian-halligan-7578456","podcast_index_feed_id":7578456,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/CPUAI1584649469","website_url":"https://sequoiacap.com/series/long-strange-trip/","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/a5d56c0e-be95-11f0-a390-4bfad5f96ff0/image/bc1acd14db9edb7f96c9b051c875fe69.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Sequoia Capital","episode_count":19,"summary":"The CEO rulebook is getting rewritten. Brian Halligan, Sequoia partner and co-founder and longtime CEO of HubSpot, sits down with some of the CEOs who are defining the new one—from hypergrowth AI-native startups to 150-year-old behemoths. Whether you’re an early-stage founder or a scale-up CEO, Brian will be digging for advice you can use on the long strange trip of your own CEO journey.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-23T18:19:13.949420+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/long-strange-trip-ceo-to-ceo-with-brian-halligan-7578456"},"episode":{"title":"The Philosopher CEO | Clay Co-Founder Kareem Amin","slug":"the-philosopher-ceo-clay-co-founder-kareem-amin","published_at":"2026-07-23T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/long-strange-trip-ceo-to-ceo-with-brian-halligan-7578456/the-philosopher-ceo-clay-co-founder-kareem-amin","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/long-strange-trip-ceo-to-ceo-with-brian-halligan-7578456","url":"https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/CPUAI4466953098.mp3","audio_url":"https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/CPUAI4466953098.mp3","summary":"I had Kareem Amin all wrong. When Clay first crossed my radar, I thought he was too laid-back:  no chip on his shoulder, not the hungry founder I expected to win. Clay has since exploded. Kareem builds from what he calls \"a place of wholeness\" rather than lack — nothing to prove, no enemy to beat. It makes him sound like a philosopher, but the operating instincts underneath are sharp. He spent roughly five years wandering before Clay clicked, and his takeaway is that the hard part of building isn't working hard — it's the courage to commit to one idea and stop listening to everyone else, customers included. He flipped every assumption in his market: sell to technical \"go-to-market engineers,\" charge for usage instead of seats, pick power over simplicity. We both created categories, in opposite ways. I flogged \"inbound marketing\" with a book, a conference, and relentless content. Kareem coined \"go-to-market engineering\" and then refused to take credit, letting agencies own it because a category has to be bigger than you. We also get into his \"momentum detective\" theory of the CEO job, why he's deleting his standing one-on-ones, and why apologizing is one of his sharpest tools. There's no single way to run a company. Kareem is my proof.","meta_description":"I had Kareem Amin all wrong. When Clay first crossed my radar, I thought he was too laid-back: no chip on his shoulder, not the hungry founder I exp…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4166,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/long-strange-trip-ceo-to-ceo-with-brian-halligan-7578456/episodes/the-philosopher-ceo-clay-co-founder-kareem-amin/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/long-strange-trip-ceo-to-ceo-with-brian-halligan-7578456/the-philosopher-ceo-clay-co-founder-kareem-amin.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}