Alex Lieberman is the co-founder & CEO of Morning Brew. They're a leading new media startup with over 2.7mil newsletter subscribers, making them one of the largest daily newsletters around.
Alex & his co-founder sold a majority stake in the business to Insider Inc for a reported $75mil in Oct 2020.
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Dru Riley is the founder of Trends.vc, a community + newsletter that helps 35,000 entrepreneurs discover new markets + ideas.
Trends makes tens of thousands of dollars/month in subscription revenue + was ranked "Product of The Month" on Product Hunt.
In this conversation you'll learn about:
– the meta-trends behind what Dru writes about, the things that don't change, after studying the things that do change
– democratization, positive-sum networks + fractional ownership
– trends he's excited about including: DeFi (decentralized finance) + DAOs (decentralized autonomous organizations) and NFTs (non-fungible tokens)
– the 80/20 of his research + editing process, including how he processed 172 podcasts for 1 recent report
– we go behind the mind & discuss some of his rules for life, we touch on incentives, stories + courage
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Lexi Lewtan the founder of Centered, where she's building the Masterclass for Mental Health.
Previously she ran operations for AngelList's Talent Platform, scaling it from zero to $20m
in revenue.
She has a deep background in the startup world, previously working at Hired & betaworks.
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Jake Gibson is the co-founder of NerdWallet & Founding Partner at Better Tomorrow Ventures, a $75mil venture fund, investing in the future of Fintech alongside Sheel Mohnot.
He's been involved in fintech for over a decade. Prior to NerdWallet, he studied math and quantitative finance at MIT and traded interest rate derivatives at JPMorgan.
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