Ladies and gentlemen, I've always wanted to do that.

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.

It's an awesome day because this weekend I got to enjoy from the outside watching Morning

Brews Charity Poker Tournament Chipping in for COVID where we raised $200,000 for frontline foods.

I talk about the tournament and how uninvolved I was in this production in this episode as well as what it's like to hire

empathically. I hope you enjoy and I'll catch you at the end of the episode.

Start of a new week, Monday afternoon coming off a big weekend.

What's going on, Alex?

New week and normally I don't like to talk about work on the weekends,

but it was an awesome weekend because we had our charity poker

tournament chipping in for COVID and it was a massive success it was it was

amazing thanks to Austin,

my co-founder, who helped plan a lot of it.

Thanks to Josh, you producer Josh,

who also wore the hat of poker tournament Josh.

And then, I mean, there were so many other people involved it was amazing and you know we were talking about this earlier but for whatever reason it was like the first time that I felt as though I was fully removed from a large initiative within the business.

And I think, you know, I started thinking about like why is it now that I felt as though I wasn't involved and it felt very real.

And I think it's because a lot of times, like me or Austin or other managers,

when we start delegating things to people, we feel like we're getting really

good at delegating because we're telling people to do things. But what I've started to think to myself is, it almost

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