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Channels with Peter Kafka

Morning Brew CEO Alex Lieberman is building a media brand one newsletter at a time

Channels with Peter Kafka

Vox Media Podcast Network

Business News, News, Tv & Film, Technology

4.4585 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Recode's Peter Kafka chats with Morning Brew CEO Alex Lieberman about his ambitious path from business newsletters to full-fledged media company and why he's looking closely at models like Complex and Barstool. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:00.7

welcome to recode media peter kofka that is me back in bro, talking with Alex Lieberman, CEO, co-founder

1:14.4

Morning Brew. I think he's in New Jersey, he told me. It looks nicely appointed where it

1:18.4

are. Welcome, Alex. In New Jersey, at my mom's home. I'm Benjamin Buttoning in life right now.

1:24.6

Yeah, it does kind of a vibe about the mom vibe there, but still a classy mom vibe.

1:28.3

And can I spell the secret about your mom that I just learned?

1:30.3

You can.

1:31.3

That is fun.

1:32.3

Alex is a scrappy startup CEO, and he had a chief of staff, which I thought was a little bit

1:37.3

much for a scrappy startup CEO.

1:39.3

Turns out his chief of staff is his mom.

1:42.3

It is my mom. And as you noticed from the email correspondence,

1:47.1

we've been very tactical in only spilling the beans when we make the decision. So she is Stacy

1:53.6

Whitman per email. We go by her maiden name, but she's in fact my mom. We have now blown up

1:59.0

her spot. And I also, well, this is probably too

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