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Alex Lieberman, co-founder and CEO of Morning Brew,

coming to you with the last Founders Journal of the Week.

For those of you joining for the first time,

the Founders Journal is my daily diary, made public for the first time the Founders Journal is my daily diary made public

for the world so that you and I can both work through the biggest challenges the

biggest wins and the biggest losses happening behind the scenes at Morning Brew. Today we're going to talk about

the importance of drawing inspiration from others, some called stealing, others call it inspiration,

but we're going to talk about why it's so important

let's hop into it. All right why today why is this relevant? Right before this

conversation I was working with our product manager of Morning Brew's paid product that we're going to be launching over the coming months

You know for founders journal listeners that it has something to do with education.

And we're still thinking about how we can educate our audience,

but the manifestation of education

looks different than it even did six weeks ago.

Six weeks ago, we were all in on courses and what I can say is the initial paid

product we're going to launch is probably not going to be a course and so the

reason that this was so topical for me is as I was thinking about our paid product moving forward

One of the really important things to think about is

Resourcing who are the people that we need to launch the product, to continue to execute

on the product after it launches, and who will help us get better with the product.

And so what came to mind was rather than

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