Episodes
Six years of tape. Every episode is checked claim by claim and playable.
24 episodes in 2025
🎙FOUNDER'S JOURNAL
15m How to Crush a Quarterly Offsite
Alex Lieberman breaks down his adapted Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) framework for running highly effective quarterly business offsites, illustrating how leadership teams can step b…
7 statements 2 featured
🎙FOUNDER'S JOURNAL
16m How to Not F*ck Up Your Meetings
Host Alex outlines seven core principles for running effective business meetings, emphasizing meeting reduction, strict agendas, capped group sizes, and asynchronous communication to maximiz…
11 statements 4 featured
🎙FOUNDER'S JOURNAL
25m Early days building a decacorn
In this debut Guest Journal episode, Gusto co-founder and CEO Josh Reeves shares the strategic, tactical milestones from his company's first 12 months. He explains how disciplined problem va…
6 statements 2 featured 1 assessments
🎙FOUNDER'S JOURNAL
23m Focus, fresh eyes, and pet psychics
In this variety episode of Founders Journal, Alex Lieberman shares practical entrepreneurial insights on managing multiple startups, leveraging channel partnerships for scale, designing fric…
7 statements 3 featured
🎙FOUNDER'S JOURNAL
17m I'm raising money
Morning Brew co-founder Alex Lieberman details his decision to raise $1.1 million for his AI startup, Distro. He delivers an analytical breakdown of the trade-offs between bootstrapping, ang…
7 statements 3 featured
🎙FOUNDER'S JOURNAL
19m Should I quit?
In this episode of Founders Journal, Alex Lieberman reflects on why he never quit Morning Brew, examining the psychological motivators behind his persistence while analyzing when founders sh…
5 statements 2 featured
🎙FOUNDER'S JOURNAL
24m Pitching preseed investors
Alex Lieberman shares seven tactical principles for pitching pre-seed investors, using the fundraising journey and mock pitches of his AI startup Distro as a practical guide for early-stage …
8 statements 3 featured 1 assessments
🎙FOUNDER'S JOURNAL
21m Agencies are wildly underrated
Alex Lieberman explains why service agencies are vastly underrated in the modern entrepreneurial landscape, demonstrating how artificial intelligence grants them software-like leverage while…
8 statements 3 featured 1 assessments
🎙FOUNDER'S JOURNAL
22m What motivates entrepreneurs
Alex Lieberman explores the psychological spectrum of founder motivation, contrasting the explosive but unsustainable fuel of fear and insecurity with the durable, long-term power of curiosi…
7 statements 3 featured 1 assessments
🎙FOUNDER'S JOURNAL
19m Own the internet
Alex Lieberman explores organic B2B growth through the hub-and-spoke framework, detailing how StoryArb mobilized its internal team into LinkedIn creators through the 'Own the Internet' compe…
5 statements 2 featured 1 assessments
🎙FOUNDER'S JOURNAL
19m A primer on seedstrapping
Alex Lieberman explores the concept of 'seedstrapping'—raising a single initial funding round to achieve sustainable profitability—analyzing its strategic benefits, macroeconomic catalysts, …
7 statements 3 featured 3 assessments
🎙FOUNDER'S JOURNAL
16m Facing your limiting beliefs
In this episode of Founder's Journal, Morning Brew co-founder Alex Lieberman examines the origins of limiting beliefs and shares his personal experiences with imposter syndrome. He outlines …
4 statements 2 featured
🎙FOUNDER'S JOURNAL
20m How to run a quarterly offsite
In this episode of Founders Journal, Alex Lieberman delivers an actionable masterclass on how to organize and execute high-impact quarterly leadership offsites using the Entrepreneurial Oper…
6 statements 2 featured 1 assessments
🎙FOUNDER'S JOURNAL
16m LEAKED MEMO from Shopify CEO
Alex Lieberman analyzes a leaked internal memo from Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke, exploring how artificial intelligence is disrupting white-collar cognition and reshaping modern business operation…
7 statements 3 featured
🎙FOUNDER'S JOURNAL
15m How I find business ideas
In this episode of Founders Journal, Morning Brew co-founder Alex Lieberman presents a comprehensive framework for generating, sourcing, and managing high-leverage business ideas using inter…
3 statements 1 featured
🎙FOUNDER'S JOURNAL
17m I launched an AI agent
In this episode of Founders Journal, Morning Brew co-founder Alex Lieberman breaks down the launch of his first AI software product, Distro, sharing tactical lessons on rapid prototyping, pa…
10 statements 4 featured
🎙FOUNDER'S JOURNAL
17m My biz's 6 defining moments
Alex Lieberman details the two-year retrospective of his B2B agency StoryArb through six defining milestones, sharing actionable lessons on customer validation, leadership recruitment, produ…
6 statements 2 featured
🎙FOUNDER'S JOURNAL
16m Conferences are (mostly) a waste
In this episode of Founders Journal, Alex Lieberman explains why most business conferences offer poor returns on investment and shares key insights on founder psychology, modern content stra…
6 statements 3 featured
🎙FOUNDER'S JOURNAL
16m $12 billion startup caught spying
In this episode of Founders Journal, host Alex Lieberman analyzes the explosive corporate espionage lawsuit filed by Rippling against rival HR unicorn Deel, detailing the insider spy tactics…
7 statements 3 featured 5 assessments
🎙FOUNDER'S JOURNAL
17m Becoming a multipreneur
Alex Lieberman explores the concept of multipreneurship, detailing the personal motivations, tactical incubator frameworks, and strategic lessons learned from building multiple businesses si…
3 statements 1 featured 1 assessments
🎙FOUNDER'S JOURNAL
21m 7 tactics for non-cringy sales
Alex Lieberman demystifies sales as the most essential skill in entrepreneurship, offering seven actionable tactics and expert founder insights for authentic, high-impact selling.…
6 statements 2 featured
🎙FOUNDER'S JOURNAL
20m How Pieter Levels Hit $67k MRR in 3 Weeks
In this episode of Founders Journal, host Alex Lieberman analyzes how solo founder Pieter Levels built an AI-generated 3D flying game that hit $67,000 in monthly recurring revenue in three w…
10 statements 5 featured 6 assessments 1 contradicted
🎙FOUNDER'S JOURNAL
15m Why boring work is inevitable
Alex Lieberman explores why unglamorous, repetitive execution is an inevitable stage of early-stage entrepreneurship and outlines practical frameworks for diagnosing when and how founders sh…
5 statements 2 featured 1 assessments
🎙FOUNDER'S JOURNAL
17m Can you make your business feel “effortless”?
In this reboot episode of Founders Journal, Alex Lieberman introduces the pirate ship mental model to help entrepreneurs diagnose operational bottlenecks, differentiate between controllable …
5 statements 2 featured