THE O'BRIEN BRIEF

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 w