Brian Halligan is a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management where he teaches 15.392:  Scaling Entrepreneurial Ventures.

He is chairperson of HubSpot, a modern CRM company he co-founded while at Sloan. HubSpot is a publicly traded company on the NYSE, has over 200,000 customers, and has been repeatedly named the best company to work for, among other things. Brian is also a senior advisor at Sequoia Capital.  He co-founded Propeller Ventures, a climate tech venture fund.

Brian is author of two books: Marketing Lessons From the Grateful Dead and Inbound Marketing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media, and Blogs, which is in its seventh printing and has sold 50,000 copies. Inbound Marketing has been translated into nine languages and peaked at #17 overall on the Amazon bestseller list. 

He holds a BS and an EE from the University of Vermont and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.