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Founder and chief executive of Reforge; earlier vice president of growth at HubSpot.
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my favorite movies for some weird reason are all the movies around uh like the great financial crisis so um why I have no idea but I I love not even even the great financial crisis but Wolf of Wall Street
Lenny's Podcast, "Brian Balfour: 10 lessons on career, growth, and life", lightning round, favourite recent movie or TV show; the guest's own spoken answer (YouTube captions).
2023-10-05·youtube.com ↗
The BearOther
the bear episode 7 of season two is I think probably one of the best episodes of Television period that I have I've watched that episode specifically multiple times
Lenny's Podcast, "Brian Balfour: 10 lessons on career, growth, and life", lightning round, favourite recent movie or TV show; the guest's own spoken answer (YouTube captions).
2023-10-05·youtube.com ↗
Halt and Catch FireOther AMC
the other one is Halt and Catch Fire if you want something specific to the tech ecosystem especially the early Seasons I think capture the pain of creating something new like really well
Lenny's Podcast, "Brian Balfour: 10 lessons on career, growth, and life", lightning round, favourite recent movie or TV show; the guest's own spoken answer (YouTube captions).
2023-10-05·youtube.com ↗
Clouded JudgmentOther Jamin Ball
Jamon Ball from Altimter Capital writes this great newsletter called Clouded Judgment, which is kind of mixture of market thoughts as well as, um, like market stats, uh, that like that's really useful to help me a pulse on the market
Lenny's Podcast, "Why ChatGPT will be the next big growth channel (and how to capitalize on it)", lightning round, asked for books; named what they read regularly; the guest's own spoken answer (YouTube captions). A newsletter; captions spell the author "Jamon Ball".
2025-08-17·youtube.com ↗
Silicon ValleyOther
I just uh rewatched Silicon Valley that I hadn't watched a number of times. And it's um it's painful because like the first few seasons, I went through almost every one of those moments in my first startup. Uh like hiring the gray-haired CEO, the funding falling through at the last second, like all the crazy stuff. Uh, but kind of going back and watching that, I like there's just some extra nuances and stuff that I feel like they wrote really well
Lenny's Podcast, "Why ChatGPT will be the next big growth channel (and how to capitalize on it)", lightning round, favourite recent movie or TV show; the guest's own spoken answer (YouTube captions).
2025-08-17·youtube.com ↗
StickOther
just pure entertainment kind of calming thing kind of turn the brain off is uh is um Owen Wilson's new show on Apple TV Stick
Lenny's Podcast, "Why ChatGPT will be the next big growth channel (and how to capitalize on it)", lightning round, favourite recent movie or TV show; the guest's own spoken answer (YouTube captions).
2025-08-17·youtube.com ↗
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