What is up? This is Alex Lieberman, co-founder and CEO of Morning Brew, coming to you with another episode of The Founders Journal.

My daily diary, where I talk about the challenges, the thought experiments, the wins, the losses happening behind the scenes at the brew

Today we're talking about investing in your learning and being the consumer of your own product

Let's hop into it.

Which of our many existing and upcoming products are we thinking about being the user of?

Where are you going with that?

Well, it's a very timely question because today is the first day for our new product manager of

education strategy it's a mouthful but it's a really important position

Ashna Mankosha joins us from Brain Station and we're super excited for her to help build out Morning

Brew's educational product.

We've been talking about diversifying away from ad revenue for the longest time.

We've talked about Morning Brew's Reader being intellectually curious for the longest time.

Now we were actually putting our money where our mouth is and

Ashna is going to be pushing forward this product from ideation to

creation to execution. But the reason that we're talking about this topic

is because I've decided to take an online course for my own

personal development but I think this course enables me to do two things it enables me to continue to invest in myself and

invest in my learning, but it also allows me to be more of the consumer of our

educational product that we're building

because I'm going to be a consumer or student

of an educational course that we can draw inspiration from.

And the course that I'm taking

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