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

Coming to you with another episode of the Founders Journal,

where we talk about the biggest things happening behind the scenes at the Brew.

Our wins, our losses, how we're navigating a pandemic right now as

first-time founders.

I hope you enjoy and I hope you learn from the lessons I learned today.

Why today?

So you're talking to people today, what is impactful about today

when you're still doing a million other things?

One, I just like have come to realize that the other things that I could be spending time on are things that other people in the business

have under control that it's almost a waste of my time spending time on it so like you know

I was thinking about spending more time on the poker tournament but Austin has that under control

and to me the best way to work on the poker tournament is to ask Austin how can I help you?

You know the things I'm touching right now are the poker tournament, the launch of

marketing brew, finding a senior editor, you know, helping to oversee and organize the design team,

and then making sure the Galloway section 4 partnership and just our broader education product goes well and I think there's no place

where I can add more value right now than willing this product forward because what

I've realized even from testing the section four

partnership is that there are certain needs in a business that have like they necessitate

founder-level attention and I think the education thing is one of those and the reason I say that is if you even think about it like we partner with Scott Galloway

We are promoting their course in our newsletter. I've had to kind of will this promotion into happening into plugging it in our newsletter in a way

where it would have been very hard for someone more junior in the business, you know, to go to

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