Ep. 250 - Alex Blumberg: The Shape of a Story: Building a Podcasting Empire

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Education, Business

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2017

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

Alex Blumberg is the founder and CEO of Gimlet Media. Before this, he was an incredibly successful radio journalist. He won multiple awards in the industry. Alex hosted and produced popular NPR shows, "Planet Money" and "This American Life". When he saw the new industry of podcasting booming, he risked it all and reinvented himself. He started his own company. Today Gimlet Media oversees and produces multiple podcasts at one time. Visit gimletmedia.com to discover a variety of new podcasts you can start listening to today! ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book, Skip the Line, is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltuchershow.com------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsiHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on social media:YouTubeTwitterFacebookLinkedIn See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.
0:06.4	This is the James Altiger Show on the Choose Yourself Network.
0:12.4	Today on the James Altiger Show.
0:15.4	I had this experience early on where I would sort of safe and offhandedly and people would react and act on them.
0:22.8	Is that because things come from the top down and if you're anxious then it will be anxious?
0:26.8	Yeah, your anxiety as the CEO of the company is just more powerful. It has bigger ripples.
0:32.0	A big part of my job now is just starting writing these quarterly emails. Like hey everyone, here's what's happening.
0:38.0	I would notice that people took the anxious every couple of months.
0:41.2	They're worried, absence of information, people feel in a story. So I've had to become more intentional.
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1:40.0	Once again, I'm here with Alex Bloomberg, your head of give-up media. How's it going? Welcome to the show again.
1:46.0	Well, thanks. It's really great to be here.
1:48.0	Last time you were on was like three years ago or two and a half years ago.
1:50.8	Yeah. Yeah. You did this massive reinvention in your life.
1:55.6	You were a superstar on planet money and all these MPR shows. You were a big radio guy.
2:03.6	I think you probably thought you were going to be in radio for the rest of your life.
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