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 talk about the future of the resume. Let's hop into it.

Let me take you back to 1482. A young Leonardo da Vinci wrote a letter to the Duke of Milan

seeking employment. And in this letter, he talked about his ability to build instruments of war.

Leo said, where the operation of bombardment might fail, I would contrive catapults,

Minganels, no idea what that is, Traboki and other machines of marvelous efficacy and not

in common use. And in short, according to the variety of cases, I can contrive various and

endless means of offense and defense. What I just read is credited as the first resume ever written.

Now, fast forward more than 500 years, and we still have the resume. Sure, it's changed in some

ways. It's no longer written as a letter in fancy Leonardo da Vinci style pros. It's no longer

called a datasheet or a personal profile. And now we have these fancy things called ATSs that

ingest resumes and spit out a list of resumes that should go in the yes pile versus the no pile.

But for the most part, resumes are the same. They're still a document. They're standardized.

They list someone's experience and accomplishments. And they're often the first step in the

application process. I cannot get over how wild this is. With technology, what it means to work has

changed entirely in the last 20 years, let alone in the last 500 years. Yet the most important

document in the hiring process has barely changed. It is time to dig into that and answer a very

simple question or resumes dead or said differently should resumes die. Now, before sharing my thoughts,

I want to share the predictions of others. I put a poll on Twitter and got some really interesting

responses. Let me share them. Alex Loll believes content is the new resume and the information you

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