Alex Lieberman

Co-Founder & Executive Chairman, Morning Brew · 1 appearance on the record.

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Alex Lieberman is best known for co-founding Morning Brew and serving as its CEO until selling a majority stake to Insider in 2020. He currently leads the AI services firm Tenex and hosts the Founder's Journal podcast.

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Insight

Lieberman: Content longevity works because most creators burn out and quit

“If the content is good enough for a specific audience long enough, generally that's a good formula because a lot of people, most people will not stick with the consistency of putting content out for years on end. Like it sounds simple, but most people just can…”

Alex Lieberman Mar 4, 2021 ▶ 6:28 How I Built Resilience: Alex Lieberman and Austin Rief of Morning Brew

Insight

Lieberman: Newsletter referral rewards rely on social signaling and exclusive content

“What are the things that they care a lot about? And generally it was around two things. It was extra content where it was ways to socially signal that you are a Morning Brew VIP. So it was always something that either a mug that could be on your desk or a crew…”

Alex Lieberman Mar 4, 2021 ▶ 9:15 How I Built Resilience: Alex Lieberman and Austin Rief of Morning Brew

Insight

Lieberman: Media engagement is driven by delivery tone, not factual differences

“The content is the same. The delivery could not be more different. And I will have that conversation with my cousin every day of the week.”

Alex Lieberman Mar 4, 2021 ▶ 16:45 How I Built Resilience: Alex Lieberman and Austin Rief of Morning Brew

Insight

Lieberman: Polite early user praise is useless for improving a product

“Everyone is really good at telling me I'm doing a great job with this thing and it is wildly unhelpful to actually make it better.”

Alex Lieberman Mar 4, 2021 ▶ 3:42 How I Built Resilience: Alex Lieberman and Austin Rief of Morning Brew

Insight

Lieberman: Morning Brew used a dedicated 'tone editor' to inject personality

“What we did is we said, if they're good enough at writing just digestible flowing blurbs about the biggest business stories, the only other job we have to do is to get tone involved, and so we literally got like a tone editor, and it was someone who had this r…”

Alex Lieberman Mar 4, 2021 ▶ 10:37 How I Built Resilience: Alex Lieberman and Austin Rief of Morning Brew

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Lieberman: Morning Brew's newsletter inbox receives 400 to 500 replies daily

“Morning Brew is getting 400 to 500 replies a day to our inbox, and we are trying as hard as possible to answer all of those.”

Alex Lieberman Mar 4, 2021 ▶ 17:49 How I Built Resilience: Alex Lieberman and Austin Rief of Morning Brew

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
How I Built Resilience: Alex Lieberman and Austin Rief of Morning Brew	Mar 4, 2021	12m

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