Episode 286: TMBA286: An Audio Response to Alex Blumberg and Gimlet Media’s “Startup” Podcast
Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle
Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen
4.9 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2015
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
http://www.tropicalmba.com/gimlet/ Ian, Taylor Pearson and myself can't stop listening to Alex Blumberg's new podcast called Startup. If you haven't heard it yet, stop reading this and go listen to it. If you listen to a lot of podcasts or radio at all, you've probably heard Alex's work on shows like This American Life and Planet Money. We decided we wanted to create an episode that would serve as a companion piece to this fantastic series. The three of us are talking about how the show inspired us, what we see as the ironies in the venture capital world, the distinctions between being and artist and an entrepreneur, and what this series represents in the podcasting world.
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| 0:00.0 | 99% of the people out there want to make good living and buy good living, I mean make |
| 0:04.9 | five, 10 times which you could at your current job, be able to spend time with your family, |
| 0:09.7 | have control of your business, be able to build generational wealth. You know, all these things |
| 0:14.2 | can be done with a lifestyle business. What you can't do with a lifestyle business is you can't |
| 0:18.1 | make Chris Soccer rich. |
| 0:22.6 | Hey,, listener. |
| 0:24.1 | Even if you are alone in your entrepreneurial journey, know that today, right now in your |
| 0:28.1 | earbuds, you are joined by thousands of entrepreneurs from all around the globe seeking to |
| 0:33.0 | grow better, more profitable, location independent businesses. |
| 0:36.8 | If you'd like to learn more about what we do and download our entire back catalog, |
| 0:41.9 | check out tropical MBA.com. |
| 0:49.7 | So me and Taylor and myself, we all love this new podcast called Startup. We decided we'd make a show that sort of is a companion to it. Startup is a story of a guy named Alex Bloomberg. And if you listen to a lot of podcasts and radio, you probably have heard his work. I mean, he worked on This American Life and he created a show called Planet Money. I remember listening to Planet Money |
| 1:11.7 | when I was, you know, driving to my job in Carlsbad, California. It's just so cool to see him |
| 1:17.9 | start a new company and one that creates high quality podcast, no less. And he created a podcast |
| 1:23.8 | that sort of documented the whole process. Actually, why don't we hear it in Alex's words? |
| 1:28.4 | I love podcasts. |
| 1:29.5 | I love making them. |
| 1:30.5 | I love listening to them. |
| 1:31.8 | But there's all kinds of podcasts out there, from a couple people talking around a mic |
| 1:35.5 | to the kind that I make and that I have a particular soft spot for, which focus on |
| 1:40.1 | storytelling and journalism. |
| 1:42.1 | And of course, we have a soft spot for those kinds of podcasts, too. |
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