Business Building with Alex Lieberman

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🗓️ 4 July 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Episode 95: On this special holiday edition of Morning Brew Daily, Neal and Toby sit down with Morning Brew Co-Founder Alex Lieberman. The guys discuss Alex's journey in building the Brew with now CEO Austin Rief while they were both in college at Michigan and why Alex almost didn't hire Neal as MB's third ever full-time employee. Alex also explains how his mental health took a hit when he shifted from CEO to Executive Chairman in 2021 and how he has navigated a shift in responsibilities over the last few years. As Alex dives back into entrepreneurship and helping founders, he has relaunched his podcast "Founder's Journal" where he gives you an insider’s look into building businesses. Alex explores the founder’s journey, from the painful demands of 0-to-1 to the powerful frameworks that help you scale to millions in revenue and other emotional challenges founders endure. Listen to Founder’s Journal here: https://link.chtbl.com/OV4W93_W Watch Founder’s Journal here: https://www.youtube.com/@FoundersJournal Follow Alex on Twitter: https://twitter.com/businessbarista Follow Alex on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alexlieb/ Listen to Morning Brew Daily Here: https://link.chtbl.com/MBD Watch Morning Brew Daily Here: https://www.youtube.com/@MorningBrewDailyShow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good morning, Brudalee Show. I am Neil Fryman and I am Toby Howell. Happy
0:04.3	Fourth of July everyone. Hope you are having a wonderful day off with friends,
0:08.4	family and potato salad with heaps of mayonnaise. We are off for the holiday,
0:13.5	but in true American fashion, the content factory never stops. So we pre-recorded
0:18.7	another special episode for you today. We spoke to one of the co-founders of
0:23.3	Morning Brew. Today we are getting to know Alex Lieberman. Alex started
0:28.2	Morning Brew when he was just a student at Michigan alongside current CEO
0:32.2	Austin Reef. It has been building the company for the better part of the
0:36.2	last 10 years. We're going to talk to Alex about his journey with the brew, how it
0:40.8	felt to step down from being CEO of the company he founded and discuss his own
0:45.7	podcast under the brew umbrella Founders Journal. It's Tuesday, July 4th. Let's ride.
0:52.0	Alex, welcome to the show. It's good to have you. Good to be here. So we've been
1:01.2	using these special holiday episodes as a chance to get to know different
1:05.1	people from the Morning Brew ecosystem, but we're especially excited to talk to
1:09.2	you because without you, there is no Morning Brew ecosystem. You are the founder
1:13.9	of Morning Brew. You actually hired both Neil and I and you currently sit as the
1:18.4	executive chairman of this huge multi-million dollar media empire. But before
1:23.3	all that, you were just a young ambitious business major at the University of
1:27.4	Michigan for the people who may have just found the pod but don't have any
1:31.2	background on the company that is Morning Brew. Can you tell us how Morning Brew
1:35.0	kind of started? Yeah, thanks again for having me. It's good to be here with my golf
1:38.6	buddies. So I think to understand my background, you need to like go a little bit
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