What's up, everyone? Welcome back to another episode of Founders Journal. I'm Alex Lieberman,

co-founder and executive chairman of Morning Brew. With the return of Founders Journal,

I have a few principles I want to lay out up front. First principle, create shit that helps

increase the odds of entrepreneur's success. Second principle, connect with my audience as much

as possible. So shoot me an email at Alex at Morning Brew.com, say what up, introduce yourself,

and let's have a conversation. Third principle, I'm going to be trying a lot of different formats.

I'm going to see what resonates most with you. I will do more of what you like and less of what you

don't like. And with that, I am bringing back a format that everyone loved the first two times

around. It is called Temperature Check. And basically, you can think of Temperature Check as a true

journal style episode where I sat down at the end of last week and I wrote a simple journal prompt

at the top of my notebook. And that prompt said, Alex, time for a Temperature Check. What went

well this week? What didn't go well? And what did you learn? And everything I am going to say

for the rest of this episode is my answer to this prompt exactly as I wrote it. I hope you enjoy.

Let's do this thing. Time for a Temperature Check. What went well? For the longest time,

we couldn't get multimedia right at Morning Brew, multimedia, meaning video, audio, social.

We knew that finding success was something beyond our original product, the newsletter,

would be a challenge. But after two years of spinning our wheels, Austin and I started feeling

discouraged that maybe we just weren't the company to figure it out. But in the last three months,

there's been a massive amount of momentum created with Morning Brew's newest line of business.

We launched Morning Brew's Daily News Show, which is on fire. It's literally at the top of the

charts in business every day. Morning Brew's Instagram had its fastest month of growth ever.

Morning Brew's YouTube had its first viral video ever with 435,000 views,

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