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Alex Blumberg

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2019-10-21

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1. “Siting like we're building this business or anything like that. If anything, he was embarrassed about it. Why? I don't think he valued it at all. Like I think all he wanted to do was be a poet, really, or like an academic or a great thinker of some kind.”

   2019-10-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Gimlet Media: Alex Blumberg and Matt Lieber · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

2. “Oh, yeah, they were entrepreneurial. And yet we never use that word. I didn't learn that word at home. I probably learned that word in college. My mom was a social worker and she ran a public employees assistance program, but I never heard her talk about it that way. My father, he was always in advertising. My dad was always in advertising, and he was a copywriter and then he worked with a couple different people at different agencies and then he eventually started his own advertising agency. And then that agency and then another one that became Wolfbloomberg Croody. So he was the Bloomberg and the Wolf Bloomberg Crotie. And it grew pretty big. At a certain point, I think there were like 70, 80 people. And he never talked about it as like”

   2019-10-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Gimlet Media: Alex Blumberg and Matt Lieber · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

3. “So, some of you may know that for most of my early career, I was a newspaper. I covered a bunch of wars. I was posted overseas. I was a host on NPR's evening news show. But then, in 2012, I left. I left to essentially relaunch a podcast. It was called The Ted Radio Hour, and I still host it. And back then, that decision, believe it or not, was like going into the wilderness of journalism. Several of my colleagues were like, you're going to do a what a podcast? And to be honest, I was a little embarrassed myself. I was leaving the prestigious world of news for the exile of podcasts. But of course what eventually happened was precisely the opposite of exile. Podcasts exploded. Today, podcasts are a half a billion dollar industry. And what was once considered an afterthought, even at a place like”

   2019-10-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Gimlet Media: Alex Blumberg and Matt Lieber · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

4. “Was at some party, and Ted Coppel Was like Alex, how long are you going to stay at this job? Don't you want to start something on your own? And I remember telling him, like, no, Ted, I'm pretty happy. He's like, are you really? So then I woke up And I told my wife about that dream. And I think that kicked it off. Just had to bite the bullet and quit.”

   2019-10-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Gimlet Media: Alex Blumberg and Matt Lieber · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT