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This is RICO Daily.

I'm Peter Kofka, and I am also the host of RICOD Media where I talked to interesting people at the intersection of technology and media and one of those people is Alex Lieberman. He's the co-founder of Morning Brew.

It's a startup media company,

it's best known for its newsletter,

which condenses business dues for a millennial-ish audience

and now supposedly reaches 2 million people in the US.

And I was interested in talking to Alex

because he sounded like the kind of archetype startup

founder that we're all fascinated with.

He had an idea in college, he pursued that idea

instead of the career he was supposed to go after, and a few

years later he now seems astonishingly successful. And I wanted to know how all of that happened,

so here's an excerpt from our conversation.

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