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Founder's Journal

90% Unsexy

Founder's Journal

Morning Brew

Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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09/22 The Founder's Journal with Alex Lieberman Today I talk about how unsexy my work today was an what the day-to-day of running a media organization is really like. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What is up everyone? This is Alex Lieberman, co-founder and CEO of Morning Brew coming to you with the first

0:07.3

Founders Journal of the Week. As always, I'm joined by my co-pilot Josh Kaplan who pushes the conversation further and for those of you that are joining for the first time

0:18.0

the Founders Journal is my daily audio diary made public for the world where I talk about the most important

0:23.5

thoughts moments wins and losses behind the scenes as Morning Brew and today

0:28.6

we are talking about the unsexiness of running a business.

0:33.0

Let's hop into it.

0:34.0

So you've had a lot of crazy moments this morning.

0:37.0

Word on the street.

0:38.0

So crazy.

0:39.0

Just been pounding the keyboard on sales navigator, typing in the word editor about 50 times, going

0:46.8

through about 40 tabs on LinkedIn.

0:49.2

It's been pretty nuts.

0:50.2

Wow, that's exhilarating.

0:52.2

There's nothing like just cruising through sales navigator. nuts. Wow, that's exhilarating.

0:52.6

There's nothing like just cruising through a sales navigator looking for people to join the team.

0:57.6

Yeah, and I mean, running stuff.

1:00.6

Obviously we're being sarcastic now, but honestly this was one of the reasons that we

1:05.8

decide to start Founders Journal was I not only wanted to memorialize the entrepreneurial

1:11.1

experience, but I wanted there to be kind of this authentic raw

1:16.5

look at what it's like to build a business I think there is a ton of entrepreneurship

1:20.3

content that exists in the world and this is not a knock at all on the content

1:25.2

but I do think there's an absence of content that shows like the exciting the

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