The Logan Bartlett Show

In the 57th episode of The Logan Bartlett Show, HubSpot Co-founder Brian Halligan joins to discuss his near-death experience, building a $20B company, and how Apple and Grateful Dead have influenced HubSpot. 

(0:00) Intro

(2:15) Snowmobile Accident

(15:36) HubSpot Going Public

(26:57) Inbound vs. Outbound

(32:54) HubSpot vs. Salesforce

(39:10) iPod Influence

(43:10) Grateful Dead and Black Licorice

(58:01) HubSpot Culture

(1:04:44) Learning from Mistakes

(1:11:02) Brian’s Schedule

(1:14:45) Climate

Mixed and edited: Sam Dewees

Produced: Rashad Assir

Executive Producer: Josh Machiz

Music: Griff Lawson

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Logan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, Netflix. In each episode, Logan goes behind the scenes with world-class entrepreneurs and investors. If you're interested in the real inside baseball of tech, entrepreneurship, and start-up investing, tune in every Friday for new episodes.

Executive Producer: Rashad Assir

Producer: Leah Clapper

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Logan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, and Netflix. In each episode of The Logan Bartlett Show, we sit down with the people behind today’s most important startups and extract the tactics, lessons, and frameworks they’ve learned the hard way. Conversations span hiring to GTM, product, growth, fundraising and everything in between - collectively forming the ultimate playbook to make you a better CEO, investor or board member.

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In the 56th episode of The Logan Bartlett Show, Kevin Ryan (AlleyCorp, MongoDB, Business Insider, Zola) joins to discuss the rise of psychedelics as healthcare, the early days of the internet, and the current state of the market.

(0:00) Intro

(2:38) Current State of the Market

(6:21) Early Days of the Internet

(16:04) Layoffs

(24:48) AlleyCorp

(32:20) MongoDB

(42:39) Business Insider

(1:00:50) Interview Process

(1:13:59) Healthcare and Psychedelics

(1:28:51) Education

(1:38:11) Journey to the South Pole

Mixed and edited: Sam Dewees

Produced: Andrew Nadeau and Rashad Assir

Executive Producer: Josh Machiz

Music: Griff Lawson

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Logan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, Netflix. In each episode, Logan goes behind the scenes with world-class entrepreneurs and investors. If you're interested in the real inside baseball of tech, entrepreneurship, and start-up investing, tune in every Friday for new episodes.

Executive Producer: Rashad Assir

Producer: Leah Clapper

Mixing and editing: Justin Hrabovsky

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Logan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, and Netflix. In each episode of The Logan Bartlett Show, we sit down with the people behind today’s most important startups and extract the tactics, lessons, and frameworks they’ve learned the hard way. Conversations span hiring to GTM, product, growth, fundraising and everything in between - collectively forming the ultimate playbook to make you a better CEO, investor or board member.

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In a special bonus episode of the Logan Bartlett Show, Logan is joined by journalists Dan Primack from Axios and Eric Newcomer from Newcomer to discuss the implications from SVB and where the tech and venture capital industry goes from here.

Executive Producer: Rashad Assir

Producer: Leah Clapper

Mixing and editing: Justin Hrabovsky

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Logan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, and Netflix. In each episode of The Logan Bartlett Show, we sit down with the people behind today’s most important startups and extract the tactics, lessons, and frameworks they’ve learned the hard way. Conversations span hiring to GTM, product, growth, fundraising and everything in between - collectively forming the ultimate playbook to make you a better CEO, investor or board member.

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In the 55th episode of The Logan Bartlett Show, Amplitude CEO Spenser Skates joins to discuss his path to going public, finding market fit, differentiating from competitors, and Logan’s early investment in Amplitude.

(0:00) Intro

(4:13) Going Public

(16:50) Thinking About Cost Consciousness

(21:17) Crowdsourcing Cost-Saving Ideas

(26:22) Choosing a Career

(35:25) The Promise of Product Data

(58:36) What to Look For in a Board Member

(1:01:12) Founding CEOs Suck at Hiring

(1:17:39) Exercise Windows

Mixed and edited: Sam Dewees

Produced: Andrew Nadeau and Rashad Assir

Executive Producer: Josh Machiz

Music: Griff Lawson
 

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Logan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, Netflix. In each episode, Logan goes behind the scenes with world-class entrepreneurs and investors. If you're interested in the real inside baseball of tech, entrepreneurship, and start-up investing, tune in every Friday for new episodes.

Executive Producer: Rashad Assir

Producer: Leah Clapper

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Logan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, and Netflix. In each episode of The Logan Bartlett Show, we sit down with the people behind today’s most important startups and extract the tactics, lessons, and frameworks they’ve learned the hard way. Conversations span hiring to GTM, product, growth, fundraising and everything in between - collectively forming the ultimate playbook to make you a better CEO, investor or board member.

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In the 54th episode of The Logan Bartlett Show Zach Weinberg returns to share everything from “catching the bug” of the internet in college, to founding and exiting 2 companies, to his latest venture Curie.Bio; a drug discovery co-pilot and seed investment firm focused on Biotech. Lots of interesting comparisons drawn between Biotech today and the early days of tech.

(0:00) Intro

(1:25) Welcome Zach Weinberg

(3:21) Background

(6:46) Starting EatNow

(9:56) Why healthcare?

(19:55) The best way to learn about an industry

(29:08) Building and Selling Flatiron

(36:10) Buying a CHR

(46:06) Curie.Bio

(1:17:19) Going public
 

Mixed and edited: Justin Hrabovsky

Produced: Andrew Nadeau and Rashad Assir

Executive Producer: Josh Machiz

Music: Griff Lawson
 

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About the Show

Logan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, Netflix. In each episode, Logan goes behind the scenes with world-class entrepreneurs and investors. If you're interested in the real inside baseball of tech, entrepreneurship, and start-up investing, tune in every Friday for new episodes.

Executive Producer: Rashad Assir

Producer: Leah Clapper

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Logan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, and Netflix. In each episode of The Logan Bartlett Show, we sit down with the people behind today’s most important startups and extract the tactics, lessons, and frameworks they’ve learned the hard way. Conversations span hiring to GTM, product, growth, fundraising and everything in between - collectively forming the ultimate playbook to make you a better CEO, investor or board member.

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In the 53rd episode of the Logan Bartlett show, we’re joined by Dr. Toyin Ajayi, co-founder and CEO of Cityblock Health, and discuss the state of the U.S. healthcare system, out-of-control medical costs, transitioning to CEO, and diverse hiring in the workplace.

(0:00) Intro

(1:35) Welcome Dr. Toyin Ajayi

(2:53) What is Cityblock?

(10:48) Medicaid and the business model

(15:32) Taking on the most expensive part of the population

(22:05) Why for-profit

(28:41) Working with a broken healthcare system

(38:00) Arguments for democratizing healthcare

(42:03) Dr. Toyin Ajayi’s background

(47:04) Working on HIV/AIDS prevention

(51:56) Building a non-profit

(1:02:57) Having a co-founder step back

(1:05:50) Diverse hiring
 

Mixed and edited: Justin Hrabovsky

Produced: Andrew Nadeau and Rashad Assir

Executive Producer: Josh Machiz

Music: Griff Lawson
 

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Logan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, Netflix. In each episode, Logan goes behind the scenes with world-class entrepreneurs and investors. If you're interested in the real inside baseball of tech, entrepreneurship, and start-up investing, tune in every Friday for new episodes.

Executive Producer: Rashad Assir

Producer: Leah Clapper

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Logan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, and Netflix. In each episode of The Logan Bartlett Show, we sit down with the people behind today’s most important startups and extract the tactics, lessons, and frameworks they’ve learned the hard way. Conversations span hiring to GTM, product, growth, fundraising and everything in between - collectively forming the ultimate playbook to make you a better CEO, investor or board member.

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In the 52nd episode of the Logan Bartlett Show, Redpoint’s Jason Warner and Jacob Effron join to discuss the quickly expanding AI landscape, what the AI models are, and why we should be paying attention.

(0:00) Welcome Jason Warner and Jacob Effron

(8:30) Why does the AI boom feel like it’s come out of nowhere?

(12:30) How does it actually work?

(16:02) Compounding on itself through usage & training reward models

(18:08) Two most mainstream AI models

(22:20) Why do people care about open source vs closed source?

(30:45) Companies at the foundational level

(36:05) What’s exciting from a use case standpoint?

(44:28) Changes occurring in the workforce

(48:15) Who should be in charge of AI policy

(54:12) Comparisons to crypto

(58:54) Future-proofing yourself as a founder outside the AI landscape

Show Notes: 

Unsupervised Learning Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6Zn7A4TPHRScBPZ2pA6sZ1?si=avH3lLS8R4iBuocgUAiYxQ

Unsupervised Learning Substack: https://unsupervisedlearning.substack.com/

OpenAI Cookbook: https://github.com/openai/openai-cookbook#readme

Langchain Overview: https://langchain.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Attention is All You Need Paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.5555/3295222.3295349

Henry Kissinger and Eric Schmidt book: https://www.amazon.com/Age-I-Our-Human-Future/dp/0316273805
 

Mixed and edited: Justin Hrabovsky

Produced: Andrew Nadeau and Rashad Assir

Executive Producer: Josh Machiz

Music: Griff Lawson
 

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About the Show

Logan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, Netflix. In each episode, Logan goes behind the scenes with world-class entrepreneurs and investors. If you're interested in the real inside baseball of tech, entrepreneurship, and start-up investing, tune in every Friday for new episodes.

Executive Producer: Rashad Assir

Producer: Leah Clapper

Mixing and editing: Justin Hrabovsky

Check out Unsupervised Learning, Redpoint's AI Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@UCUl-s_Vp-Kkk_XVyDylNwLA

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Logan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, and Netflix. In each episode of The Logan Bartlett Show, we sit down with the people behind today’s most important startups and extract the tactics, lessons, and frameworks they’ve learned the hard way. Conversations span hiring to GTM, product, growth, fundraising and everything in between - collectively forming the ultimate playbook to make you a better CEO, investor or board member.

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In episode 51 of the Logan Bartlett Show, CEO coach Matt Mochary who coached a number of the most prominent investors and CEOs in Silicon Valley including:

Sam Altman from OpenAI

Brian Armstrong from Coinbase

Vlad from Robinhood

Naval from AngelList

Ivan from Notion

Peter Fenton from Benchmark

Alfred Lin and Pat Grady from Sequoia

Parker Conrad from Rippling

Steve Huffman from Reddit

Max Rohdes from Faire

Mamoon Hamid from Kleiner

Matt and Logan discuss what led to him becoming a CEO coach, his philosophies and tactics for running a company, and what makes him resonate with such a diverse set of CEO personalities.

Matt is also the author of the book, The Great CEO Within written with Alex Macaw.

(0:00) Intro

(1:48) Welcome Matt Mochary

(9:52) Resonating with people of such diverse personality types

(22:08) Fear leads to people making the wrong decision

(24:36) Matt’s Process

(30:30) 4 Zones of Genius

(40:09) CEO Tactics

(46:27) Philosophies

(57:04) Offboarding

(1:10:19) Having a hard conversation

(1:14:16) Boards are the death of every great investor

(1:22:20) Quick hitters

Mixed and edited: Justin Hrabovsky 

Produced: Andrew Nadeau and Rashad Assir 

Executive Producer: Josh Machiz 

Music: Griff Lawson 

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Logan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, Netflix. In each episode, Logan goes behind the scenes with world-class entrepreneurs and investors. If you're interested in the real inside baseball of tech, entrepreneurship, and start-up investing, tune in every Friday for new episodes.

Executive Producer: Rashad Assir

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Logan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, and Netflix. In each episode of The Logan Bartlett Show, we sit down with the people behind today’s most important startups and extract the tactics, lessons, and frameworks they’ve learned the hard way. Conversations span hiring to GTM, product, growth, fundraising and everything in between - collectively forming the ultimate playbook to make you a better CEO, investor or board member.

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On the 50th episode of the Logan Bartlett Show, Legendary investor Alan Patricof joins Logan to discuss venture through the years, his many investments including Apple and AOL, going to Buring Man at 87, his new book No Red Lights, and how a car breakdown led to him missing out on Woodstock.

(0:00) Intro

(1:30) Welcome Alan Patricof

(7:00) No Red Lights

(13:01) Generational perspectives and staying relevant

(18:00) New York 1966-1969

(25:54) Graduating from Ohio State and getting into venture

(29:40) Starting a venture fund in the 70s

(34:02) Different periods in venture

(40:25) Shift to private equity in venture

(48:09) Investment style

(51:41) Not taking board seats

(55:50) What Alan looks for in founders

(58:38) Investing in Apple

(1:09:35) Optimism on future in venture

Mixed and edited: Justin Hrabovsky 

Produced: Andrew Nadeau and Rashad Assir 

Executive Producer: Josh Machiz 

Music: Griff Lawson 

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Logan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, Netflix. In each episode, Logan goes behind the scenes with world-class entrepreneurs and investors. If you're interested in the real inside baseball of tech, entrepreneurship, and start-up investing, tune in every Friday for new episodes.

Executive Producer: Rashad Assir

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Logan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, and Netflix. In each episode of The Logan Bartlett Show, we sit down with the people behind today’s most important startups and extract the tactics, lessons, and frameworks they’ve learned the hard way. Conversations span hiring to GTM, product, growth, fundraising and everything in between - collectively forming the ultimate playbook to make you a better CEO, investor or board member.

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In the 49th episode of the Logan Bartlett Show, Solo Capitalist and angel investor Elad Gil joins to discuss working at Twitter vs Google, the myths of Silicon Valley, the best cities for start-ups in 2023, and the worst advice given to founders.

(00:00) Intro

(01:59) Welcome Elad Gil        

(11:24) Working at Twitter vs Google      

(12:48) Find your network        

(14:55) Why do certain people have so much longevity?        

(16:36) Angel Investing areas

(21:34) Finding Stripe in the early days           

(25:19) What makes a good product market?       

(28:18) Myths of Silicon Valley        

(32:42) Decision-making process today vs back then        

(35:22) Defining post-market fit            

(40:05) Silicon valley lore of grinding is wrong                 

(46:19) Moving the needle         

(49:01) Other silicon valley myths that aren't true               

(56:06) Best cities to create a start-up in 2023       

(1:02:02) Excitement for AI and other interesting new tech                 

(1:13:10) What's going on with Twitter?      

(1:18:25) Two Modalities for long term success 

Mixed and edited: Justin Hrabovsky 

Produced: Andrew Nadeau and Rashad Assir 

Executive Producer: Josh Machiz 

Music: Griff Lawson 

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Logan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, Netflix. In each episode, Logan goes behind the scenes with world-class entrepreneurs and investors. If you're interested in the real inside baseball of tech, entrepreneurship, and start-up investing, tune in every Friday for new episodes.

Executive Producer: Rashad Assir

Producer: Leah Clapper

Mixing and editing: Justin Hrabovsky

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About the Show

Logan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, and Netflix. In each episode of The Logan Bartlett Show, we sit down with the people behind today’s most important startups and extract the tactics, lessons, and frameworks they’ve learned the hard way. Conversations span hiring to GTM, product, growth, fundraising and everything in between - collectively forming the ultimate playbook to make you a better CEO, investor or board member.

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