Asking For Help

Founder's Journal

Morning Brew

Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

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🗓️ 11 September 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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09/11 The Founder's Journal with Alex Lieberman Today I discuss how and when to ask for help. When I ask questions: - When I have many questions to answer - When the questions aren't easily accessible - When the price for wrong answers is high Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up everybody? This is Alex Lieberman, co-founder and CEO of Morning Brew,
0:04.7	coming to you with another episode of The Founders Journal, My Daily Diary,
0:10.0	made public for the world where I talk about the most important thoughts,
0:13.7	moments, wins, maybe some losses.
0:17.0	Behind the scenes at Morning Brew.
0:19.2	As always, I'm joined by my co-pilot and my compadre, Mr. Joshua Kaplan.
0:25.5	Again, guys got a new camera and it's looking phenomenal.
0:28.7	And today we are talking about asking for help,
0:31.4	because generally as human beings we suck at it but it is one of the
0:35.8	most important things that you need to be able to do as a founder or a professional.
0:39.3	Let's hop into it.
0:40.3	What can I help you with?
0:41.3	It's a great question.
0:43.4	So I was chatting at 1115 exactly with someone and I asked this person for help.
0:50.8	Why did I ask the person for help? Because as I've said in the past, we have
0:55.3	built Morning Brew on a single competency. That one thing is being great at email
1:00.2	newsletters. Writing them, growing them, selling them, thinking about email deliverability,
1:05.9	we're great at it.
1:06.9	But as we think about taking Morning Brew to the next level, there are going to be other
1:10.8	competencies that we have to build up that we simply are not good
1:15.1	at and don't have knowledge around.
1:17.1	And so what this made me think about is, one, we should be talking to people who are best in
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