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How business news newsletter Morning Brew got its start

February 27, 2019

Posted by Chris Roush

Andy Molinsky of Forbes.com interviewed Morning Brew CEO and cofounder Alex Lieberman about how he started the daily business news email newsletter.

Here is an excerpt:

Andy Molinsky: So, Alex, as a recent Morning Brew subscriber, I’m very excited to hear how you founded Morning Brew.

Alex Lieberman: It started my senior year at the University of Michigan. I was lucky enough to receive a full time a job offer and only had to take two or three classes to graduate. So I had some time on my hands and I decided to help out with other friends’ job searches. As it turned out, one of the hardest things for them was keeping up with the latest business news. They could do it, but what they were reading was just so dense and uninspiring.

Molinsky: So, was that the problem you were trying to solve?

Lieberman: Exactly. So, I literally just started writing a daily business roundup, which, at the time, wasn’t even called Morning Brew. It was called the Market Corner. And it was super simple – just a Microsoft Word template that I would put together saved as a PDF, and distributed through a listserv through Michigan’s website.

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