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. So you're listening to the sixth episode of our How to Start Building

mini-series that is focused on how to turn your business ideas into a reality. If you're not caught

go back and listen to the five previous episodes that are all part of the series this week.

Today I am talking about the evolution of an entrepreneur. This is for anyone that's building

a new product or a business either as a standalone startup or as a side project or a business

within a larger company. Let's hop into it. If you are going to be an entrepreneur or an entrepreneur,

you have signed up to be a builder. You will always be a builder, but assuming you find success,

what you are building changes. And that means the skills you need to build successfully and the

interests you have to stay engaged with what you're building needs to change as well. And so I

generally bucket the job of the entrepreneur or the entrepreneur in two ways or two parts of

the life cycle. Chapter one of an entrepreneur is what I call the doer in chief. And chapter two

of an entrepreneur is what I call the delegator in chief. What you will find when building anything

and I definitely found this in Building Morning Brew is that the skills and interests of the doer

in chief and the delegator in chief are not only very different, but they're often at odds or

experience tension with one another. And in order to do a good job as a delegator in chief,

chapter two, you need to unlearn many of the priorities and skills that were essential for you

to be successful as the doer in chief. For some entrepreneurs, they both enjoy and are great at

evolving from doer to delegator. And for others, they are either unable to or don't have an

interest in that evolution. So now what I want to do is break down how the focus, the skills,

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