What's up everyone? Welcome back to another episode of Founders Journal, My personal diary made public for the world.

I'm Alex Lieberman, co-founder and executive chairman of Morning Brew.

And today I am trying a new format. I'm taking the best piece of content that I have consumed recently

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You were at Princeton with aspirations to be a theoretical physicist.

Yeah.

What attracted you to physics and why did you change your mind and not become, why you're not Jeff Bays as the famous theoretical physicist.

So I loved physics and I studied physics and

physics and computer science

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