How Do You Build Something That Lasts? with Adam Gurri

Past Due with Ana Marie Cox and Open Mike Eagle

Ana Marie Cox, Open Mike Eagle, and Andrew Steven

Business, Performing Arts, Arts, Society & Culture

4.6 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Adam Gurri, co-founder and editor-in-chief of Liberal Currents, joins us to talk about eight years of building a publication nobody paid him to make, and what happened when the world finally caught up. We get into how you raise half a million dollars from a community you built on trust, what it actually costs to pay yourself in New York City without betraying your principles, and why the most important job in journalism right now might be the one nobody sees: editing. Get more at patreon.com/pastdue Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:03.1	Calling UK Wildlife.
0:04.8	No, call my wife.
0:07.2	Here's a cheese knife, Lester.
0:09.2	Voice assistance not working for you.
0:11.3	With Black Rock Investment Trust's hands-on investing, long-term approach to growth and regular dividends, you have a lot working for you.
0:18.2	I live in Kent.
0:19.7	Get to know, BlackRock Investment Trusts at blackrock.com. You have a lot working for you. I live in Kent. Get to know BlackRock Investment Trusts at blackrock.com.
0:23.3	You have a lot working for you.
0:24.9	Capital at risk, marketing material.
0:26.3	BlackRock Investment Management UK Limited,
0:28.0	authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.
0:31.2	Imagine working on something for eight years, unpaid,
0:35.0	in your spare time, around a full-time day job, and you decide you're going to commit
0:40.1	even harder.
0:42.0	Adam Gurry, co-founder and editor-in-chief of liberal currents, spent years working on a
0:46.3	volunteer-run publication before making a leap to full-time operation in 2026.
0:51.2	We get into how you pay writers, how you pay yourself, and how you ask your community
0:55.1	for money without betraying the trust that built it. And why the worst thing that can happen to a
0:59.7	good idea is that it gets stale before anyone with power notices it exists.
1:08.4	The creative economy is broken, but some people are still making it work.
1:12.3	We're here to find out how.
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