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 world where I talk about the biggest wins, losses,

learnings and lessons behind the scenes at Morning Brew. And today we are talking about the importance of building relationships with talent.

Let's hop into it.

So I was talking to a candidate for an editorial role at Morning Brew earlier today.

It was for actually one of the editorial roles

related to our paid product.

And I was chatting with him,

and I just really enjoyed the conversation. He was sharp, he had a sense of humor, he has had

multimedia content experience in written audio, video,

video, social, he refers to himself as a human Swiss Army knife, and he just generally seemed curious and excited to find ways to constantly be a better version of himself.

And so what I said to him at the end of the conversation was that I said, you know,

we'll keep you updated on this role and either way we'll let you know whether we'd like to move forward or not over the next few days,

but regardless we should keep the conversation going because I think you'd be a great fit for the brew.

And I think far too often we cut our ties with candidates because they may not be the exact perfect fit for the specific role they're applying for.

And not to say that he's not perfect for this role,

but I made sure to keep the door open

because I think building up your talent

or recruiting CRM should be an absolute priority as a business.

You know, there are several examples where at Morning Brew we have hired people

that initially weren't interested in a job at the Brew, or initially we didn't have a role for them, but we were like,

wow, this is an incredible talent. Let's continue to build this relationship because they're a special

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