Six years ago, Morning Brew started out as a fun business newsletter Alex Lieberman and Austin Rief wrote for their classmates out of their University of Michigan dorm room. The company now has over 2.5 million subscribers with multiple newsletters and a podcast, and last year Business Insider paid about 75 million dollars for a majority stake in Morning Bre ... Show More
Mar 9
Bobo’s: Beryl Stafford. A Single Mom Turns a Baking Project into a $100M Business
Bobo’s: Beryl Stafford. A Single Mom Turns a Baking Project into a $100M BusinessAt 40, Beryl Stafford’s life cracked open. Her marriage ended, she hadn’t worked in years, and she had two daughters to raise. She needed income—fast. So she did the only thing that felt real: she ba ... Show More
58m 48s
Nov 2023
First Time Founders vs. Second Time Founders
Episode 65: Alex Lieberman (@businessbarista) chats with Dan Siroker (@dsiroker), a serial entrepreneur who is currently the co-founder and CEO of Rewind, a personalized AI that captures everything you’ve ever seen, said, or heard. Prior, he was the co-founder and CEO of Optimize ... Show More
25m 2s
Apr 2024
Growing Morning Brew from 0 to 10,000 Subscribers
Episode 127: On this episode of Founder’s Journal, I break down the exact strategies we used to acquire our first 10,000 newsletter subscribers and abstractable growth lessons you can apply to your business. Send us an email and let us know what you think of the idea! foundersjou ... Show More
21m 52s
Apr 2021
TIP344: A Deep Dive Into Morning Brew's $75M Valuation w/ Alex Lieberman
On today’s episode, Trey sits down with Alex Lieberman, the co-founder and CEO of the wildly popular email newsletter company, Morning Brew. Alex comes from a family with a career history in finance, but set out on his own to pursue Morning Brew, and recently sold it to Business ... Show More
1h 7m
Jan 2024
How to Spend a Startup’s $ Wisely
Episode 96: Most startups and their founders don’t spend their money well, often using it as a crutch for a bad product or a misguided tool for growing their business too quickly. Today, I’m going to read essays from Elad Gil, a successful entrepreneur and arguably the greatest a ... Show More
21m 19s
Sep 2023
Why the Paradox of Success Still Haunts Me
Episode 41: Alex Lieberman (@businessbarista) talks about the Paradox of Success, what it is, and why it’s important. It’s an issue that Alex, and many other successful entrepreneurs grapple with as they continue to find success. In the end, Alex shares his tips on how to stay gr ... Show More
15m 46s