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What's up everyone?

This is Alex Lieberman, co-founder and executive chairman of Morning Brew.

Welcome back to Founder's Journal, My Personal Audio Diary, where I give you the business

builder the tools you need to think better in order to build better, whether that's building

a business, a team, or a new product.

Today, I'm talking about the entrepreneurial operating system.

Let's hop into it.

Let's rewind to July of 2019, just about two years ago.

Morning Brew looked wildly different.

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