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The O'Brien Brief is a podcast for founders and CEOs scaling B2B companies — the ones tired of marketing theater, vendor hype, and growth advice that doesn't survive contact with a P&L. Host Tony O'Brien has spent more than three decades on the operator side of revenue. He recruited and trained a 400-person sales force across 13 deregulated energy states, scaling Glacial Energy to $30 million in monthly revenue. He founded and ran Spinnaker Partners, a proprietary hedge fund, for 19 years. He built RealEstateLender.com into a top-10 commercial lender. He's a published author on AI and business transformation, with works including Artificial Intelligence: Navigating the Future of Business and Society and the AI-Ready Change Management Playbook. That operator background shapes every conversation on the show. The O'Brien Brief isn't a thought-leadership stage. It's a working session between people who've actually carried a number, built a sales floor, missed a quarter, and rebuilt the system that caused it. Each episode goes beyond the hype and into the work itself — the five domains where B2B companies quietly win or quietly bleed: ICP and offer clarity — who you actually sell to, and why they actually buy. Lead capture and speed-to-lead — the difference between a pipeline and a graveyard. Qualification rigor — how to stop confusing activity with progress. Follow-up discipline — the unglamorous work that compounds. Pipeline visibility and forecast reliability — the difference between a forecast a board trusts and one it tolerates. Guests are founders, CEOs, and revenue operators who've built pipeline at scale — and the occasional one who broke it learning how. Energy. Financial services. Real estate. Industrial. SaaS. The sectors change. The discipline doesn't. You won't hear keynote voices repeating what they said on the last twelve podcasts. You won't hear AI buzzwords stacked on top of each other to sound current. You will hear specifics: what worked, what cost too much, what got cut, what scaled, what didn't, and what every founder wishes someone had told them earlier. Tony is Managing Partner and Chief Strategy Officer at Fyntra AI, where he helps B2B companies install the pipeline systems most founders inherit by accident rather than build on purpose. The show is a window into that work — and the operators doing it well. If you're a founder or CEO who'd rather have one conversation with someone who's done it than ten with people who've theorized about it, you're in the right place. New episodes weekly. Subscribe wherever you listen.
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