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What's up everyone, this is Alex Lieberman, co-founder and executive chairman of Morning

Brew.

Welcome back to Founders Journal, my personal audio diary, where I give you the business

builder, the tools you need to think better in order to build better.

Whether that's building a business, a team, or a new product.

Today, I'm talking about the least popular, least sexy, but most important thing we do in

business.

Meetings.

If you're a professional, you're going to be dealing with meetings for the next several

decades, so it's worth taking the time to get good at them.

I'm going to tell you how, let's hop into it.

Over the last six years, Building Morning Brew, I've been in thousands of meetings.

I've run many of them, I've been an attendee in many of them.

And if I'm being honest, a majority of those meetings have been ineffective or unnecessary.

As much as this episode is for you to level up how you think about meetings, it's just

as much to hold me accountable for making meetings better within my professional world

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