What's up everyone? Welcome back to another episode of Founders Journal. I'm your host Alex Lieberman,

co-founder and executive chairman of Morning Brew. Today's episode is a special one. I'm talking about

podcasts and specifically this podcast, the history of the show my view on

podcast broadly right now and how that view is informing the next chapter of

Founders Journal that's right right. Starting next week, we are

rebooting Founders Journal with a new format that I am more excited about than any of

the previous formats of the show, so make sure to keep listening.

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For those of you that have been following and listening to Founders Journal since day one, middle of 2020,

first of all, thank you so much. I am incredibly thankful for such dedicated and engaged listeners.

And also thank you for following this at times bumpy journey.

This will now be the fourth iteration of the show, and I'm most excited about it but I also don't

discredit the fact that we've changed this thing over and over in an effort to

continue to make this product better. For those of you that haven't been listening since the beginning,

let me take you down a quick trip down memory lane.

Started in, I want to say, April or May of 2020, my then fiance and I were living at my mom's place in New Jersey.

We didn't yet have our dog Rambo.

I had a bunch of free time because for those of you that have heard me talk about my

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