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Alex Lieberman, the co-founder and Executive Chairman of Morning Brew, gives you an insider’s look into building businesses. Alex explores the founder’s journey, from the painful challenges of 0-to-1 to the powerful frameworks that help you scale to millions in revenue as well as the emotional rollercoaster that is present throughout.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Alex Lieberman makes founder judgment legible by pairing practical operating questions with candid attention to ambition, identity, and personal growth.
Founder's Journal turns entrepreneurial experience into practical examination. Alex Lieberman moves between personal diary entries and focused interviews built around one operating ability, asking how founders recognize talent, test ideas, handle leadership transitions, and…
A CEO title gets an exit interview; yours might need one too.
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A candid reflection on the Morning Brew sale, centered on valuation, regret, and the personal logic behind saying yes.
Alex Lieberman's talk about the Morning Brew sale reads as a steady, unsentimental look at an exit decision, the valuation behind it, and the regret he wanted to avoid.
A founder's hiring argument that turns team structure into a real operating choice.
Founders Journal spends this episode on focus, talent, and the sort of team structure that can build a moat. Alex Lieberman connects the April shift from three episodes a week to one with a wider reset, then makes the case that full-time people matter because they can be…
A practical idea-finding playbook built from research, pattern recognition, and market observation.
Sam Parr's approach reads as a practical way to spot and vet business ideas. Research, industry reports, Similarweb, and the Web Archive are presented as part of a repeatable process, not as some hidden instinct.
A founder conversation about growth, motivation, and steadier leadership.
The episode uses Jesse Puget's path to frame a plain but useful point: entrepreneurship can be a way to grow as a person, not just build a company.
A plainspoken look at why Alex Lieberman stepped down before the title mattered more than the work.
Alex Lieberman frames his exit from Morning Brew as a fit call, not a dramatic break. He says he did not think he was the right stage two CEO, and he also did not feel enough pull from the job to keep doing it for the title alone.
A candid founder reset that turns a hard exit into a usable business lesson.
Alex Lieberman follows the awkward middle ground after leaving a founder role and trying to build again. StoryArb gets the clearest treatment: a service-business setup, the push to make life easier for clients and ghostwriters, the jump from $3,000 to $5,000 retainers, and the…
A candid reset that shows why the next format may finally fit the host.
Alex Lieberman treats this reboot as a practical explanation rather than a polished origin story. He traces the show from its early pandemic setup in New Jersey, when he and his then-fiancee were staying at his mother's place, to the later attempt to turn it into a curated…
Shipping speed comes through as a practical business strategy, not just an engineering habit.
Founders Journal spends the episode on relentless shipping: how Beehive earned a reputation for pushing features nonstop, why that pace drew users in, and how it helped steady churn among existing customers.
Rob Walling on bootstrapped SaaS growth, plateaus, and exits — with founders who lived them.
Abbey Ashley's playbook for turning your job skills into a virtual assistant business.
Naval Ravikant on epistemology, startups, and crypto, from David Deutsch to Vitalik Buterin.
Alex Theuma interviews SaaS founders and investors on scaling to $10M-plus ARR.
Guy Raz traces founders' origin stories and fields live advice-line calls from entrepreneurs.
Alex Blumberg interviews guests like Megan Phelps-Roper and Shane McAnally about failure and reinvention.
Alex Lieberman details the decision to sell Morning Brew to Axel Springer in 2020, covering the financial, strategic, and personal factors, including a promise to his father and gut feelings about his CEO role.
Alex Lieberman shares a blog post by Tyler Dank, co-founder of Beehive, detailing how the company built a reputation for constantly shipping features in a crowded email platform market.
Alex Lieberman reflects on the evolution of Founder's Journal, sharing lessons from past iterations and announcing a reboot to a weekly interview format focused on entrepreneurs' key superpowers.
Alex Lieberman interviews Sam Parr about his method for reverse-engineering business ideas, using tools like Ikigai, historical research, and cold outreach.
Alex Lieberman shares key takeaways from a CMO dinner on marketing strategies, discusses hiring full-time vs.
Alex Lieberman shares his journey of building StoryArb after stepping down as Morning Brew CEO, detailing his identity crisis, the initial ghostwriting agency model, and the pivotal shift to a copywriting subscription service.
Alex Lieberman interviews Jesse Pujji about using entrepreneurship as a vehicle for personal growth, covering frameworks like conscious leadership, zone of genius, and motivation levels.
Alex Lieberman opens on why he stepped down as CEO.
Alex Lieberman interviews Keith Rabois about identifying top 1% talent in founders and employees.