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Founder's Journal

Why I Lost Motivation After Selling Morning Brew

Founder's Journal

Morning Brew

Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Episode 36: It’s time for another mailbag episode! Alex Lieberman (@businessbarista) answers some burning questions from our listeners. In this episode, Alex talks about how to balance your long-term brand with short-term profits, how to test a new business idea, why he chose to be a chairman vs. CEO, and ultimate goals and motivation. Timestamps: (02:08): How to balance brand building with profits (09:05): How to test a new business idea? (16:32): Why be chairman from day one of the new business? (22:00): What’s your ultimate goal with Storyarb? (24:34): Did your motivation change after selling Morning Brew? Send us an email and let us know what you think of the idea! foundersjournal@morningbrew.com #FoundersJournal #Startups #Entrepreneur Listen to Founder’s Journal here: https://link.chtbl.com/OV4W93_W Watch Founder’s Journal here: https://www.youtube.com/@FoundersJournal/ Subscribe to Morning Brew! Sign up for free today: https://bit.ly/morningbrewyt Follow The Brew! Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/morningbrew/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/MorningBrew Tik Tok - https://www.tiktok.com/@morningbrew Follow Alex! Alex Lieberman (@businessbarista) Learn more about Shopify here: https://shopify.com/crazyones Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up everyone? I'm Alex Lieberman, co-founder and executive chairman of Morning Brew.

0:05.0

Welcome back to another episode of Founders Journal and entrepreneurs personal diary made public

0:10.8

for the world. Today we are bringing back an episode style that we've done a few times listeners

0:16.8

have liked. It is the mailbag. I think of it almost as like, I was a big Blues Clues fan and I loved

0:23.3

when I watched Blues Clues and Steve would sit at his chair getting mail from listeners. That's

0:28.0

basically what this is. We've gotten so many emails as I've mentioned in previous episodes

0:33.3

over the last month or two from you all sharing stories about yourself, who you are, why you listen

0:38.7

to the show, but specifically questions you have for me that you would love for me to answer

0:43.6

in upcoming episodes. Sometimes we turn your emails into just full blown episodes. Other times we

0:49.7

will aggregate some of the best questions and we will turn them into a mailbag episode, which is

0:54.7

what we are doing today. So before we hop into it, if you want any of your questions about

0:59.6

entrepreneurship, building a media company, being a CEO or founder, running a business,

1:04.7

if you want questions about that answered in an upcoming mailbag, shoot me an email at

1:09.5

Alex at MorningBrew.com. So without further ado, let's hop into today's mailbag.

1:24.0

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1:28.8

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1:34.8

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1:39.9

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1:44.9

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1:50.8

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1:56.0

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2:02.4

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