What is up everyone? This is Alex Lieberman, co-founder and CEO of Morning Brew coming to you with another episode of The Founders Journal.

My Daily Audio Diary made public for the world where I talk about the most important

moments thoughts wins and losses behind the scenes at Morning Brew as always I'm

joined by my co-pilot Josh Kaplan and today we are talking about reading between the

lines let's do it which lines are we reading between it's a great question Josh

thanks for asking we are reading between the interview question lines. What I mean by that is, you know, a big part of my time right now is focused on hiring. We are hiring what feels like and I think is literally

more than 20 people into the business this quarter. I am focusing my time on five different hires in the

content org, which means a lot of my time is spent either reaching out to candidates, interviewing candidates, or organizing the candidate hiring process.

And so recently I've been having a number of interviews and I've

started to spend way more time being intentional in really thinking about the

questions that interviewees are answering or asking me at the end of an interview.

So in the past where I've just been like, oh, you know, that's a good question.

That's a good question I answer it and, you know, kind of in the blanket way I'm always just looking is this

person going to ask questions I feel like that's the checkbox that an

interviewer always has like is this person going to have questions prepared I'm trying

to take it a step further and basically be like how can I actually learn as much about this candidate in the specific questions they're asking as their answers to my questions.

And so that's what I'm talking about when I say

read between the lines. It also sounds like you want people to also be

interviewing you and to be testing you just as much as you're testing them and

that I think we've found that better candidates make it a two-way street rather than just one.

Yeah, and again, like I think it's just interesting to think about that for every word that comes out of your mouth there's a purpose for that word and

whether that is a statement or an answer that has a period at the end or whether

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