Long Strange Trip: CEO to CEO with Brian Halligan
Sequoia Capital
3 episodes
Crusoe CEO Chase Lochmiller: Turning Stranded Energy Into Intelligence
- Crusoe, a vertically integrated AI infrastructure company spanning energy, data centers and a managed AI cloud, has surpassed 2,000 employees, and CEO Chase Lochmiller scales it by trusting domain experts in each vertical.
- Lochmiller says CEOs almost always fire too slowly and that companies scale exponentially while people scale linearly, a view Brian Halligan says runs opposite to his own hire-slow, fire-fast practice.
29 Oct · 1 h 1 min
Luca Ferrari: The Operating System Behind Bending Spoons
- Luca Ferrari says Bending Spoons compounds capital by running digital businesses better than almost anyone, then holding them forever rather than selling.
- Bending Spoons received 800,000 applications last year and hired fewer than 300, with Ferrari arguing Harvard and Stanford graduates perform only a little better than others.
8 Oct · 1 h 6 min
Scaling AI Rocketships: ElevenLabs’ Mati Staniszewski & Lovable’s Anton Osika
- Anton Osika says he chose Lovable to build for the 99 percent of people who cannot code, not developer productivity tools.
- Mati Staniszewski says he held on to doing work himself too long and must now hire people better than himself in legal, finance and sales.
11 Dec 2025 · 57 min