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Founder's Journal — 637 episodes

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The secret business weapon

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How to Find Your Zone of Genius

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How to Get Your First 1,000 Users

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13 Dangerous Psychological Biases

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How to Crush a Quarterly Offsite

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How to deal with imposter syndrome

7

How to Not F*ck Up Your Meetings

8

Early days building a decacorn

9

Focus, fresh eyes, and pet psychics

10

I'm raising money

11

Founder Mt. Rushmore

12

Hire wrecking balls

13

Should I quit?

14

Pitching preseed investors

15

Agencies are wildly underrated

16

A better way to interview

17

What motivates entrepreneurs

18

Own the internet

19

A primer on seedstrapping

20

Steal my Idea: Stack Overflow for AI Prompts

21

Crush your procrastination

22

Facing your limiting beliefs

23

How to run a quarterly offsite

24

LEAKED MEMO from Shopify CEO

25

How I find business ideas

26

I launched an AI agent

27

My biz's 6 defining moments

28

Conferences are (mostly) a waste

29

Being lazy is good

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$12 billion startup caught spying

31

Becoming a multipreneur

32

7 tactics for non-cringy sales

33

How Pieter Levels Hit $67k MRR in 3 Weeks

34

Why boring work is inevitable

35

Can you make your business feel “effortless”?

36

Navigating Career Pivots (Kyle Hagge, Chief of Staff to the COO at Morning Brew & Co-Host of Per My Last Email)

37

How to Become a Marketing Master (Noah Kagan, Appsumo & Million Dollar Weekend)

38

How to Become Relentless as an Entrepreneur (Kian Sadeghi, Nucleus)

39

How to Identify Top 1% Talent (Keith Rabois, Investor in Doordash, YouTube, Airbnb & Lyft)

40

How to Use Entrepreneurship to Propel Personal Growth (Jesse Pujji, Ampush & Gateway X)

41

How to Reverse Engineer Great Business Ideas (Sam Parr, The Hustle & Hampton)

42

Founder’s Journal’s Next Chapter

43

My New Business

44

Why I Stepped Down As CEO

45

Why We Sold Morning Brew

46

Growing Morning Brew from 0 to 10,000 Subscribers

47

Lessons from CMOs, Great Storytelling, Freelance vs. Full-time, Follow Your Energy

48

Feeling Unskilled, Curing Cancer, and Going All-In on Morning Brew

49

A Little Throwback

50

Always Be Shipping

51

Go Direct

52

The Opportunity Cost of Everything

53

How I Lost $10,000,000

54

The Dangers of LTV

55

7-Figure Business in 48 Hours

56

Why Software is Eating the World

57

How to Hire Well

58

7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy

59

Amp it Up

60

How to Get Your First 1,000 Users

61

Rich vs. King

62

Second Job of a Startup CEO

63

17 Startup Principles by Sam Altman

64

Imitate, Then Innovate

65

Why Market Size Matters

66

Visionary vs. Fraud

67

Momentum is Everything

68

The Great Online Game

69

Active vs. Passive Listening

70

Why The Next Big Thing Looks Like a Toy? Ft. Apple Vision Pro

71

Private Elon Musk Emails

72

How to Get Rich (Without Getting Lucky)

73

Brian Chesky on Startups, Leadership, and Curiosity

74

1,000 True Fans

75

25 Lessons in 25 Years

76

A Founder’s Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company

77

How to Spend a Startup’s $ Wisely

78

The First Amazon Shareholder Letter: Summarized & Analyzed

79

How to Find Your Zone of Genius

80

Measuring Product Market Fit

81

How to Optimize Taxes as an Entrepreneur

82

I Did Something Crazy

83

Musings of a Legendary Entrepreneur

84

A 2-Step Program for New Year's Resolutions

85

A $20m Business with No Meetings, Deadlines or Full-Time Employees

86

Startup Hotline

87

Underrated Tools to Find Hidden Business Ideas

88

How to Crush a Quarterly Offsite

89

How to Elevate Your Circle

90

Bootstrapping vs. Venture Capital

91

Lessons from Jeff Bezos

92

What I’m Doing Differently as a 2nd Time Founder

93

How to Build a Community-Enhanced Business

94

LEGO: From Bankruptcy to Brick Behemoth

95

Weekly Recap: An Inspirational Entrepreneur, My Convos with Allstate & Activision, and Agency Lessons

96

How to Avoid Meetings & Build a Great Remote Culture

97

13 Dangerous Psychological Biases

98

A Tool That Made Me 95% More Productive

99

How To Raise Capital Successfully with Dan Siroker

100

How to Use EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating System) to Run & Scale Your Business

101

Week In Review: Thoughts on OpenAI, Morning Rituals, and Momentum

102

How to Delegate Effectively

103

Avoiding an OpenAI Fiasco by Successfully Building Your Board

104

The Power of Our Stories

105

How to Maximize The Value of Your Startup Equity

106

How to Crush an Investor Update ft. Sam Corcos

107

Dear Diary: Lenses in Life, The Idea Maze, Messy Middle

108

First Time Founders vs. Second Time Founders

109

How To Find Great Business Ideas Using Effectuation

110

Finding My Zone of Genius

111

A Rewind for Your Money Matters: Season 4 Recap

112

How Should You Spend Time As A CEO/Founder?

113

Why Ron Shaich Gambled Everything for Panera Bread

114

Feeling Like a Ghost in My Own House

115

How Tyler Denk Took Beehiiv from 0 to $750,000/month in 2.5 Years

116

Why Storytelling is the Key to Your Pitch

117

4 Reflections Bringing Me Closer to My North Star

118

How To Remove Your Limiting Beliefs

119

How My Company Went From Zero to a $10 Million Run Rate

120

Why The Future of the Creator Economy is Bright

121

Why Entrepreneurs Should Embrace the Boring

122

These 8 Business Ideas Were Pitched To Me. I Pick My Favorites.

123

The Secret to Bootstrapping Your Business

124

How To Become a More Conscious Leader

125

The Difference Between a Logo and a Brand

126

What I Do When I’m Feeling Lost

127

The Biggest Issue with Product-Market Fit

128

How to Find the “Suck” in Businesses

129

Why Personal Holding Companies are the Hottest Trend

130

Why Coffee Chats Have Energized My Ideas

131

This Tragedy to Triumph Story is Why I’m an Entrepreneur

132

8 Businesses I'm Bullish On

133

Why the Paradox of Success Still Haunts Me

134

An Investor’s Briefing

135

Where I Go For Startup Ideas

136

How Short Term Pain Can Bring Long Term Success

137

5 Steps to Building a Better Internet Audience

138

The Difference Between Demand and Product Market Fit

139

Why I Lost Motivation After Selling Morning Brew

140

Why All Entrepreneurs Are Contrarians w/ Codie Sanchez

141

Why Founders Should Choose Good Quests

142

How Hoka Ran Away With The Competition

143

3 Frameworks to Hiring Top Talent w/ Romeen Sheth

144

Inside the Mind of Elon Musk

145

Why Vacationing Is Actually Good For Your Company

146

Use This Playbook For BIG Disagreements At Work

147

8 Biases That Cloud Decision-Making (and How to Manage Them)

148

How I Built The Hustle w/ Sam Parr

149

How To Make The ‘Right’ Mistakes

150

4 Characteristics Your Top Talent Should Have

151

Do Bugs Get The Credit For Pokémon?

152

Why Insecurities Can Make You a Better Founder

153

9 Steps To Elevate Your Inner Circle

154

How To Curate Content That Works For You

155

How Bob Iger Deals With Tragedy

156

Why Sales is the Apex Predator of Skills

157

What We Can Learn From Chess Grandmasters

158

Why I Would Invest In These Startups

159

Preparing for Acquisition w/ Our Future

160

“How Soon Should You Have Investor Convos?” - Mailbag #1

161

How to Crush Onboarding for Employee #1

162

How to Create Your Perfect Customer Persona

163

4 Takeaways from Threads

164

4 Types of Advice You’ll Get in Your Career

165

Starting Small To Make Big Moves w/ Nick Huber

166

3 Lessons To Learn From Ryan Seacrest

167

5 Rules To Interviewing

168

Failure is Part of the Journey

169

European Wax Center…for Dogs

170

Why Successful Business Minds Have Paranoid Brains

171

Why ‘Standard Operating Procedures’ Suck

172

Be the Idiot in the Room

173

Introducing Storyarb, My Content Agency + A Temperature Check

174

10 VALUABLE Lessons from a Successful Show

175

Founder’s Journal is Back

176

Hiring a CEO is All About Timing

177

3 Strategies for Choosing the Right Co-Founder

178

The Fallacy of Corporate Stability

179

I Started Another Business. It Was By Accident.

180

What is Measured Discomfort and Why Founders Need It

181

Building Technology With Infinite Scale

182

“Build An Elite Navy Seals of Business” - Lessons from Airbnb’s Founder

183

How Founders Should Be Integrating AI To Their Business

184

Why The Grass Isn’t Always Greener

185

Is it Time To Pivot ‘The Plunge’?

186

How To Access Your Zone of Genius

187

Are Your Goals Motivated by Joy or by Fear?

188

I Suck at Delegating. My 2 Ways to Get Better at it.

189

Gaining 150k Followers From One Video + Jesse Reveals His New Business

190

6 Rules Of Constructive Feedback

191

How 2 Personal Losses Led To Building The #1 Faith-Based Media Company

192

4 Ways To Handle Someone Sh*tting On Your Idea

193

The Shameless Entrepreneur, Shoptalk 2023, When To Delegate

194

8 Lessons To Build Your Executive Team

195

How This Founder Wants to Reward You for Paying Rent

196

This Content Agency Will Change The Game for Founders

197

How To Die…With Zero

198

The Business Behind Conferences + Embracing Confrontation

199

The Art of Scrappiness

200

Rolex Is A Nonprofit + When To Disrupt Your Own Business

201

How To Get Your Initial Customers

202

Silicon Valley Bank: What Happened and Why

203

How to Not F*ck Up Your Meetings

204

The Story of Sam Zemurray is Bananas

205

Venture Studios 101 w/ Jesse Pujji

206

How a 26-Year Old With Autism Built a $10 Million Samurai Sword Business

207

How To Deal With Imposter Syndrome

208

Takeaways from Rihanna’s Career & How to Test Your Business Ideas

209

My 7 Biggest Lessons From Launching GrowthAssistant

210

The Story of Richard Branson & How to Find Product-Market Fit

211

How to Crush Investor Updates

212

How One Author Raised $41M on Kickstarter

213

How to Build Your Second Brain (BONUS EPISODE)

214

Exclusive: Selling My Company & Making Life-Changing Money

215

How to Run a Great Off-Site (BONUS EPISODE)

216

Jonathan Swanson on Building a Unicorn and Delegating 90% of Your Life

217

How an Entrepreneur Turns Self-Hate into Love

218

Our 2023 Predictions, from AI to the Creator Economy

219

Co-founders Austin Rief and Alex Lieberman on Building Morning Brew

220

Building a Multimillion Dollar Business…By Yourself

221

We Give Away 7 Profitable Side Hustle Ideas for 2023

222

Why Airlines Are Banks, How to Annual Plan for Your Business & The Biggest Myths About Founders

223

The Genius of Spotify Wrapped and How to Copy It, and How to Sell Your Business for 9 Figures

224

How the Founder of 1-800-GOT-JUNK Built His $700M Empire

225

How Codie Sanchez Built a $50 Million Portfolio of Boring Businesses, and the #1 Skill to Learn in a Recession

226

What You Need to Know Before Raising Capital, and The Billion-Dollar Media Company You’ve Never Heard of

227

What Generative AI Means for Startups and Are Executive Coaches Worth It?

228

Can Elon Turn the Twitter Ship Around?

229

How Did Mr. Beast Build a $1.5 BILLION Empire, the 5 Ways to Brainstorm Business Ideas and How to Hire FAQ

230

How to & How NOT to do Layoffs, the Tax Tip to save you MILLIONS and is the Gas App Going to Solve Bullying?

231

How Spirit Halloween Makes $600M in 2 Months, The Journey of a CEO & Is a Recession Coming?

232

How Liquid Death got a $700 Million Valuation, Making Your Pitch Deck Undeniable & The Hidden Truth of Being a Tech Entrepreneur

233

Introducing The Crazy Ones

234

The Future of Founder’s Journal

235

The Power of Leverage (Classic)

236

Considering The Unexpected (Classic)

237

Solving Problems and Making Better Decisions (Classic)

238

Mimetic Theory & Decision Making (Classic)

239

The Right Way to Take Time Off

240

How to Overcome Builder's Block (Classic)

241

The Evolution of an Entrepreneur (Classic)

242

How Entrepreneurs Think (Classic)

243

Creating Startup Ideas (Classic)

244

Should I Hire My Friend (Classic)

245

Nurturing Your Hires (Classic)

246

Learning How to Learn (Classic)

247

I Call Bullsh*t on Life Hacks (Classic)

248

Should You Care About Competition? (Classic)

249

How To Write Better Online With David Perell (Classic)

250

The Most Underrated Driver of Success & Happiness (Classic)

251

Whatever You Do, Don’t Follow Your Passion (Classic)

252

6 Steps for Successful Meetings (Classic)

253

Build Audience Like A Media Company (Classic)

254

How to Build Meaningful Relationships (Classic)

255

How to Get Promoted Faster (Classic)

256

How to Get Unstuck In Your Job (Classic)

257

Superpowers of a Top Performer (Classic)

258

A Company Isn't Family (Classic)

259

The #1 Key to a Startup's Success (Classic)

260

The Art of Negotiation

261

How to Think About Angel Investing

262

The Future of the Creator Economy

263

Dangerous Human Behaviors Part II

264

An Introduction to Network Effects

265

Two Dangerous Human Behaviors

266

Business Autopsy: Why Fintech Startup Fast Failed

267

All You Need to Know to Buy a “Boring” Business

268

Buying into the ASMR Slime Business with Codie Sanchez

269

Could Elon Musk Become Twitter’s CEO?

270

Using the Hub & Spoke Model to Grow Your Business

271

Business Case Studies #6: Excel Dictionary

272

Business Case Studies #5: The $12 Billion Email Giant (Classic)

273

Business Case Studies #4: World Mini Golf Domination

274

Business Case Studies #3: Costco's Secret Weapon (Classic)

275

Business Case Studies #2: Uber Partners with Yellow Taxis

276

Business Case Studies #1: Allbirds' Journey to IPO (Classic)

277

How Ryan Cohen Turned Chewy into a $3B Business

278

Startup Hotline: Answering Your Burning Business Questions

279

A New Hire vs. Promoting from Within

280

Top Lessons from “How Will You Measure Your Life?”

281

Great Startup Ideas, Bad Businesses

282

How to Think About Failure (Classic)

283

The Most Dangerous Traits in Employees

284

10 Tips for Crushing Your Next Presentation

285

The Creator Economy & Money With Katie

286

What Motivates You?

287

How to Build a Personal Moat to Further Your Career

288

5 Questions to Ask If You Don't Love Your Job

289

Dealing with Conflict #6: How to Fire Well

290

Dealing with Conflict #5: Stoicism & Focusing on What You Can Control (Classic)

291

Dealing with Conflict #4: Suck Less at Giving Feedback

292

Dealing with Conflict #3: 5 Leadership Lessons To Learn From Navy Seals (Classic)

293

Dealing with Conflict #2: How to Handle Big Disagreements

294

Dealing with Conflict #1: How to Speak with Radical Candor (Classic)

295

Lessons from a Billionaire Investor: Part II

296

Lessons from a Billionaire Investor: Part I

297

Bonus: "How Twitch Co-founder Justin Kan Got Sober" from Imposters

298

A Universal Rule in Work & Life

299

9 Rules for Working Smarter

300

Why I Invested in Mr. Beast’s Chocolate Bar

301

How to Maximize Your Own Evolution

302

Life & Business Lessons from Will Smith

303

The Secret Killer of Companies

304

Lessons from Bootstrapping a Business

305

Mental Health #6: The Digital Therapist

306

Mental Health #5: Meeting My Executive Coach (Classic)

307

Mental Health #4: COO Kat Cole on Knowing What You’re Capable Of

308

Mental Health #3: How to Deal with Imposter Syndrome (Classic)

309

Mental Health #2: My Love/Hate Relationship with Social Media

310

Mental Health #1: How I Manage Anxiety (Classic)

311

Career Therapy: Mastering a Side Hustle & Full-Time Job

312

How to Harness Your Creativity

313

Great Questions, Great Leaders

314

Why We Procrastinate & How to Stop It

315

My Top 4 Biggest Career Mistakes

316

How to Increase Your Salary

317

Are Resumes Dead?

318

A Book That Predicted the Future

319

A Letter to Myself for the New Year

320

Your Best Self #6: The Art of Gratitude

321

Your Best Self #5: Feeling Lost & Achieving Your Next Big Win (Classic)

322

Your Best Self #4: The Spotlight Effect

323

Your Best Self #3: How To Get Your Sh*t Together(Classic)

324

Your Best Self #2: Lessons from Starting a Book Club

325

Your Best Self #1: How to Unplug From Work (Classic)

326

7 Biggest Lessons I Learned in 2021

327

My Favorite Productivity Method

328

Founder's Journal Listener Mailbox

329

How to Manage a Bad Employee

330

5 Leadership Lessons To Learn From Navy Seals

331

Learning How to Think vs. What to Think

332

8 Non-Obvious Traits of Great Leaders

333

6 Traits of the Best People I Ever Worked With

334

Painkiller or Vitamin: Which Is Needed For Your Business?

335

The Leadership Benefits of Transparency

336

Winning In Your Career As A Jack Of All Trades

337

How to Speak with Radical Candor

338

The Power of Perspective and Prioritizing Family & Friends (Classic)

339

How to Crush 1:1 Meetings

340

Lessons from ConstitutionDAO

341

Mental Models #6: The Power of Leverage

342

Mental Models #5: How To Prioritize Time & Tasks To Enhance Your Work (Classic)

343

Mental Models #4: Second Order Thinking - Considering The Unexpected

344

Mental Models #3: How Elon Musk Thinks Part II (Classic)

345

Mental Models #2: Inversion - Solve Problems and Make Better Decisions

346

Mental Models #1: How Elon Musk Thinks Part I (Classic)

347

Lessons From The Great Resignation

348

Startup Crossfit: Soul Cycle with Mindfulness

349

The #1 Key to a Startup's Success

350

A Company Isn't Family

351

The Power of Disagreement

352

Mimetic Theory & Decision Making

353

How to Start Building #6: The Evolution of an Entrepreneur

354

How to Start Building #5: How the Brew Raised Money (Classic)

355

How to Start Building #4: How Entrepreneurs Think

356

How to Start Building #3: Why a Sales Skillset is a Business Superpower (Classic)

357

How to Start Building #2: Creating Startup Ideas

358

How to Start Building #1: Overcome Builder’s Block (Classic)

359

How Morning Brew Exited in an 8-Figure Deal

360

How to Think About Failure

361

How to Find & Keep Building Momentum

362

Stoicism & Focusing on What You Can Control

363

Shower Thoughts: How to Create Informed Conviction

364

Feeling Lost & Achieving Your Next Big Win

365

My Mental Health Routine

366

Amazing Leadership Lessons from Ted Lasso

367

What to Learn from a Business That 10x'd in 5 Quarters

368

5 Lessons From Devastating Mistakes in Business

369

Building Your Team #6: Ask an HR Executive

370

Building Your Team #5: How to Make Reference Checks Less Terrible (Classic)

371

Building Your Team #4: Nailing the Interview Part II

372

Building Your Team #3: Nurturing Your Hires (Classic)

373

Building Your Team #2: Nailing the Interview Part I

374

Building Your Team #1: Should I Hire My Friend? (Classic)

375

How to Make Social Media Work for You Part II

376

How to Make Social Media Work For You Part I

377

Mailchimp: The $12 Billion Email Giant

378

Costco's Secret Weapon

379

I Call Bullsh*t on "Life Hacks"

380

Should You Care About Competition?

381

The Power of Perspective and Prioritizing Family & Friends

382

The Double-Edged Sword of Being a Perfectionist

383

Thoughts on Employees Leaving

384

5 Lessons from Allbirds' Journey to IPO

385

How To Write Better Online With David Perell

386

The Right Way to Take Time Off

387

Accelerate Your Career #6: The Rules of Connection (Classic)

388

Accelerate Your Career #5: How to Get Promoted Faster

389

Accelerate Your Career #4: My Process for Productivity (Classic)

390

Accelerate Your Career #3: Superpowers of a Top Performer

391

Accelerate Your Career #2: Learning How to Learn (Classic)

392

Accelerate Your Career #1: How to Get Unstuck In Your Job

393

Fundraising Part II: Timing And Venture Capital Money

394

Fundraising Part I: How Morning Brew Raised Money

395

How To Prioritize Time & Tasks To Enhance Your Work

396

Build Audience Like A Media Company

397

Why a Sales Skillset is a Business Superpower

398

How Incentives Can Make or Break Your Business

399

Ethereum 101 & How It Could Top Bitcoin in Cryptocurrency

400

How to Unplug From Work

401

Founder's Mailbox

402

4 Business Lessons from the Olympics

403

How to Build Meaningful Relationships

404

9 Principles for Angel Investing

405

How I Got Into Angel Investing

406

The Golden Age of Entrepreneurship

407

Introducing Startup Crossfit, AKA "Is This Really A Good Business Idea?"

408

Entrepreneurship In All Aspects Of Your Life w/ Shopify's Harley Finkelstein

409

The Most Underrated Driver of Success & Happiness

410

How To Get Your Shit Together

E
411

The $54 Billion Business No One Really Thinks About.

412

Lessons from Andy Jassy, Amazon’s New CEO

413

How Elon Musk Thinks Part II

414

How Elon Musk Thinks Part I

415

How I Quit My Job

416

Whatever You Do, Don’t Follow Your Passion

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417

Interviewing My Co-Founder

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418

Apple’s Great Moat

419

6 Steps for Successful Meetings

420

4 Lessons From Inside Jeff Bezos's Brain

421

How NOT To Treat Information Like Sh*t

422

The Entrepreneurial Operating System

423

Why Saving Is So Dangerous

424

How to Elevate Your Tribe

425

How to Build Your Tribe

426

Why and How I Bought Bitcoin

427

Fight for Your Customers

428

The Power of Learning Groups

429

How to Be a Selfless Conversationalist

430

Hiring Senior Employees

431

My Opinion On Opinions

432

How I Manage Anxiety

433

Aggregation Theory

434

How to Keep a Decision Journal

435

How to Make Decisions

436

How to Build Intentionally

437

Learning How to Learn

438

How My Brain Works

439

The Regret Minimization Framework

440

The Rules of Connection

441

Guest Journal: Carving Your Niche w/ Darren Rovell

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442

The Value of Feedback

443

The Power of Storytelling

444

Former CEO of Morning Brew

445

Guest Journal: Ask What's Possible w/ Kara Goldin

446

The Power of Curation

447

The Trailblazer

448

Guest Journal: Build in Public w/Nik Sharma

449

Jobs to Be Done

450

Think for Yourself

451

Network Effects

452

My Cofounder

453

The Billion Dollar Builder

454

Winning with Scale

455

The Future of Work

456

Return on Luck

457

The Power of Focus

458

What Is Strategy?

459

6 Years, 6 Lessons

460

Meeting My Coach

461

Making $$$

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462

Work Hard, Pay Hard

463

Chief People Pleaser

E
464

How We Built This

465

A(lex)SMR

466

The Future of Twitter

467

How to Deal with Imposter Syndrome

468

Good Interview, Bad Interview

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469

The Entrepreneur Evolution

470

My Process for Productivity

471

Building a New Product

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472

Changing Our Name and Logo

473

The Clubhouse Craze

474

How We Raised Money

475

Audience Building 101

476

Picking a Cofounder

477

My First Fire

478

Should I Hire My Friend?

479

The Cauliflower of Business

480

4 Principles For Making Great Hires

481

Losing My Dad

482

The Origin of Morning Brew Sales

483

Why I Quit My Job

484

How We Grew From 0 to 2.5 million

485

I Ruined The Meeting

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486

The Secret to Employee Happiness

487

How to Overcome Builder's Block

488

Making Weekdays as Productive as the Weekend

489

Leadership During Tumultuous Times

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490

5 Keys to a Pump-up Speech

491

New Year's Resolutions Are Broken

492

Why I'm Rewriting My Job Description

493

Mr. Beast and the Balloon Effect

494

Poker Should Be a Required Business Class

495

The Scary Part of a Relaxing Break

496

Should I Invest in Bitcoin?

497

Your Trash is Another's Treasure

498

Expectations vs. Reality (My First Board Meeting)

499

Small Details Add Up Fast

500

Addition by Subtraction

501

How to Make Reference Checks Less Terrible

502

Everyone Is a Project Manager

503

You Are Unoriginal

504

Monthly AMA: Startups vs. Big Business, Staying Creative, and Opportunity Cost

505

The Controversial B Word In Business

506

Two Lessons From Our Two-Day Offsite

507

It's Okay To Not Be Contrarian

508

Iterative Repetition and More Business Lessons from Archery

509

The Stress of Taking Time Off

510

Mental Readjustments During the Business Building Process

511

Online Friendships vs. Real Life Friendships

512

Using Repetition to Signal What's Important

513

The Great Unlock for Creativity and Connection

514

10 (Unexpected) Things I'm Thankful For

515

Unconventional Ways to Attract Talent

516

What Companies Can Learn From Sneakers Drops

517

5 Non-Obvious Benefits of Focusing On Your Best Customers

518

What To Do When You Encounter a Shiny Object

519

Turn Employees Into Influencers

520

How to Shoot Your Shot

521

Non-Marketing Lessons from a Marketing Legend

522

30 Days of Writing

523

The Brewsletter

524

The Idea Funnel

525

Work From Home Setup

526

Why We Hate Feedback

527

I Miss People

528

Nurturing Your Hires

529

Positioning Founder's Journal

530

We'll be back on Thursday

531

Thinking About the Future in Job Interviews

532

What's next for The Founder's Journal?

533

The Acquisition

534

Lessons from the Godfather of Marketing

535

Process Is Not The Killer

536

Building Communities

537

Signal vs. Noise

538

How to Stay Relevant

539

Be a Problem Solver

540

Active vs. Passive Curiosity

541

Interview Questions

542

AMA: Remote Work, Personal Branding, & Content Creation

543

Moderating a Panel

544

40 Under 40

545

My Q3 Review

546

Get Out of Your Bubble

547

Reflecting on the State of the Brewnion

548

Losing Employee #2

549

The Manager's Paradox

550

Prepping for State of the Brewnion

551

Scarcity and Exclusivity

552

Is It Worth It?

553

Lessons From My Golf Lesson

554

Moving Fast and Breaking Things

555

90% Unsexy

556

The Open-Mindedness Opinionated Matrix

557

The Perils of Podcasting

558

Hiring is a Team Sport

E
559

Remote Work Technology

560

Why Startups Are Allergic To Planning

561

Asking For Help

E
562

Podcast Growth

563

Therapy

564

Anxiety of the Unknown

565

1 Million Opens

566

Leading a Business During a Recession

567

Special Surprises

568

Taking Stock of Your Career

569

Personal Branding

570

My Conversation with Kipp Bodnar

571

Managing Senior Employees

572

Where To Look For Inspiration

573

My Mom

574

Future of The Founder's Journal

575

There's More to Social Media

576

Words Affect Your Identity

577

What is Productive?

578

10-Ks and Rabbit Holes

579

Org Structure

580

Replicate Success

581

Hiring Strategy

582

Strategic Likability

583

The Compound Interest of Process

584

LinkedIn AMA

585

Blind Spots

586

Organized Chaos

587

Brand Ambassador Program

588

Stealing Ideas

589

Depth Learning vs. Breadth Learning

590

My Conversation with Alicia Tillman

591

Scaling Sales

592

Tough Conversations

593

Substack Strategy

594

Personal Brand

595

Overwhelm

596

Paid Product

597

Your Content Diet

598

Culture Brainstorm

599

The Cadence of Work

600

Be the Consumer of Your Product

601

The Onboarding Process

602

State of the Brewnion

E
603

How I Set My Rocks

604

My Conversation with Shane Parrish

605

5 Traits of Employees

606

Two Wins and Two Learnings

607

An Audience Company

608

Our Core Values

609

Company Offsites

610

Big, Audacious Goals

611

Getting Outside Perspectives

612

The Journey of Interviewing and Pride Month

613

Fandom and Communities

E
614

Morning Brew's Response and Reflection

615

Defining Brand Architecture

616

Morning Brew's Views on Podcasting

617

Default to action and consistency

618

7 Takeaways

619

Be an Easter Egg

620

Qualities of a good partnership

621

Divergent vs. Convergent thinking

622

Distraction relieves discomfort

623

The Founder's Grab Bag

624

Breakthroughs

625

Distraction

626

Productivity

627

Checking in

628

Applying your learning style as a professional

629

Taking a step back

630

Attention Economy

631

15 minute blocks

632

Knowing your strengths and weaknesses

633

Putting on your blinders

634

More thinking, less doing

635

This is for the entrepreneur

636

Patience pays off

637

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