Morgan Stanley
9 statements across 8 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Aug 27, 2021 by Alex Lieberman · said 44 times in 18 episodes since 2021 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Alex Lieberman (40), Jesse Pujji (3), Austin Rief (1)
tap a year for its mentions
2025 2 mentions in 1 episode
2024 9 mentions in 2 episodes 5 per episode
2023 23 mentions in 8 episodes 3 per episode
- Rolex Is A Nonprofit + When To Disrupt Your Own Business
- Startup Hotline
- Co-founders Austin Rief and Alex Lieberman on Building Morning Brew
- Exclusive: Selling My Company & Making Life-Changing Money
- What I’m Doing Differently as a 2nd Time Founder
- Dear Diary: Lenses in Life, The Idea Maze, Messy Middle
- Why Coffee Chats Have Energized My Ideas
- 3 Strategies for Choosing the Right Co-Founder
- every mention in 2023, scene by scene →
2022 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2021 6 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
Everything said about Morgan Stanley, oldest first
Aug 27, 2021 neutral
Lieberman: Morgan Stanley promotion timelines offer minimal flexibility even for top performers
“Like when I was at Morgan Stanley, it was understood. You spend two years as an analyst, then you spend a few years as an associate, then you go to VP, and there really isn't so much wiggle room, even if you're a top performer.”
Dec 6, 2022 positive
Pujji: Major investment bank fees are worth paying on $100M+ sales
“Typically if you're selling it for under a hundred million, you'll find a boutique bank who knows your industry, but if you're selling for over a hundred million, you'll call up Morgan Stanley or one of the big, big kahunas, and they charge one or two percent,…”
Dec 27, 2022
Lieberman: The hardest founder transition is managing completely unstructured calendar time
“The hardest transition that I found when I switched from working at Morgan Stanley to going full time on morning brew. And then the transition I made from running the day to day of morning brew to being the chairman is I went from every minute of my day was di…”
Mar 21, 2023
Alex Lieberman left Morgan Stanley when Morning Brew reached 70,000 subscribers
“With Morning Brew, just to provide kind of exact numbers, I went and joined Morgan Stanley in 2015, and when I joined, we had 30,000 subscribers. I said that I would leave Morgan Stanley. I promised myself I would leave Morgan Stanley. We get to a 100,000 subs…”
Dec 15, 2023
Lieberman: Morning Brew raised only one $750K round from 28 angels
“The nice thing about Morning Brew is we only raised one round of funding ever. We raised 750 K on a convertible note while we were it was actually right after I quit my job at Morgan Stanley and we raised from 28 individual investors. There's 28 individual che…”
Dec 29, 2023
Lieberman: Entrepreneurship transitions should be calculated risks rather than leaps of faith
“The way I think about it is people talk about this leap of faith, but I actually think if you build a Business effectively, or if you mitigate risk effectively, if you treat something as a side hustle before it becomes a full-time job, you should be looking at…”
Dec 29, 2023
Lieberman: Career success requires spending 80% of time on core strengths
“In career, you want to stack the deck in your favor, and the way you stack the deck in your favor is you have self-awareness of the two or three things that you're really good at, and you work your way into a job or a position where 80% of your time is spent o…”
Mar 18, 2024
May 19, 2025
Lieberman left an $85k Morgan Stanley job for zero startup salary
“I think I was making 85,000 dollars as a trader at Morgan Stanley. And I, you know, I didn't know when I went full time on morning brew, what the exact change would be, but I definitely wouldn't be making 85 K just, you know fun flash forward. I ended up makin…”