What's up, everyone? This is Alex Lieberman, co-founder and executive chairman of Morning Brew.

Welcome back to Founder's 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. This week on Founder's Journal, we're doing things a little differently.

We're dropping our second mini-series ever. That means two episodes today,

two episodes Wednesday, and two episodes Friday. You're listening to episode two in the series,

but make sure you catch today's classic episode as well. The topic of this mini-series

is building your team. All of these shows together this week will give you the tools you need to

create a bad-ass team of A-plus players. Today, I am talking about what it looks like for a candidate

to nail an interview process. This should be valuable for everyone. For founders or managers,

these are examples of things to look for from candidates. For candidates, these are examples

of stand-out candidates that you can draw inspiration from as you look to impress in an interview

process. Let's hop into it. Over the last six years, I've probably personally interviewed

at least 500 people. I've had some good interviews, I've had some not-good interviews,

and I've had a few interviews that have blown my mind. I want to share a few of the incredible ones,

so you know what a great interview and candidate looks like as you go about hiring or interviewing.

The first story is about our current managing editor Ed Mourning-Brew,

who at the time we hired as our second writer ever. This had to be in early 2017. We had three

people on our team. We had my co-founder Austin, we had myself, and we had our first writer. Our

first writer was working probably 13 hours a day, so we needed more capacity and support for our

writer, and so we're looking for a second writer. The second writer, now our managing editor Neil,

he demonstrated a level of curiosity and a level of creativity that I've never seen before in my

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