What's up everyone? This is Alex Lieberman, co-founder and executive chairman of Morning Brew.

Welcome back to Founders Journal, my personal audio diary, where I give you the business builder,

the tools you need to think better in order to build better, whether that's building a business,

a team, or a new product. Now, before we get started, I want to share a little update with you all.

For the next little while, we are going to be republishing classic episodes of Founders Journal.

Well, one, I just think they're really good and with so many new listeners over the last few

months, it's very likely you haven't heard these past episodes. And two, I'm spending the month

of May evolving Founders Journal so that we can make this show as good as humanly possible

for the next generation of builders and entrepreneurs. With that, I would love your help as I dream

up the future of this show. So once you've listened, shoot me an email to Alex at Morning Brew.com

and tell me what you'd like to see from me. Okay, that's the update now time for the episode.

In today's classic episode, originally released on July 28, 2021, I reflect on the ways in which I

have built deep, meaningful relationships as an entrepreneur. Let's hop into it.

Something I've realized about myself is that I tend to overvalue the things that I'm not great at

and I undervalue the things that I am great at. And this is something that most of us probably do.

Our brains always default to focusing on where the grass is greener. For me, that's saying,

oh, that person is an incredible technical founder or oh, that person is wildly focused and

efficient in the way that they work. Why can't I be that way? And at the same time, we ignore

the thing that we're great at because it's so innate to our being that we don't realize that

it's unique or valuable to other people. For me, one of those traits is relationship building.

I have always been a relationship builder and I'm really good at it.

Now, I don't say that to brag or flex my network, but honestly because I never give myself credit

...