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Eric Ries

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Six months of salary. That's what Matt Mullenweg offered every Automattic employee to resign if they didn't believe in the company's direction. About 9% took the offer and left.
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Daniel Sharp, a product manager at ITX Corp, on Incorruptible: "There's something here for founders, leaders, individual contributors, and consumers." howisincorruptiblegoing.com/…
Quote card. Daniel Sharp, Product Manager, ITX Corp: Incorruptible is such an important book for this time in our business history. There's something here for founders, leaders, individual contributors, and consumers. I can't recommend it highly enough.

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“His new book ‘Incorruptible’ belongs on the bookshelf of every leader in the world.” Raj Sisodia howisincorruptiblegoing.com/…
Quote card. Raj Sisodia, co-founder of Conscious Capitalism: Eric is one of the most important thinkers, writers, advisors, and influencers active in the world of business and leadership today, and it was a pleasure to exchange ideas with him. His new book Incorruptible belongs on the bookshelf of every leader in the world.

ALT Quote card. Raj Sisodia, co-founder of Conscious Capitalism: Eric is one of the most important thinkers, writers, advisors, and influencers active in the world of business and leadership today, and it was a pleasure to exchange ideas with him. His new book Incorruptible belongs on the bookshelf of every leader in the world.

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"How do you build a company whose mission can survive its founders, investors, and inevitable changes in leadership?" Grant Canary, CEO of Mast Reforestation, now a public benefit corporation howisincorruptiblegoing.com/…
Quote card. Grant Canary, CEO and Founder, Mast Reforestation: I've been thinking a lot about corporate governance after reading Eric Ries Incorruptible. The central question: How do you build a company whose mission can survive its founders, investors, and inevitable changes in leadership?

ALT Quote card. Grant Canary, CEO and Founder, Mast Reforestation: I've been thinking a lot about corporate governance after reading Eric Ries Incorruptible. The central question: How do you build a company whose mission can survive its founders, investors, and inevitable changes in leadership?

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To be a truly for-profit company means dedicating yourself to maximizing human flourishing. Traditional finance's definition of profit is full of bugs, it ignores deferred liabilities, negative externalities, and human costs! In our SuperSalon "How Great Companies Stay Great," @ericries sat down with @TheAnnaGat to rethink how we define profit.
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Planting a tree because you'll need it for a product in a century is some elite level planning. We live in such a fast paced culture, I don't know anyone who plans on this timescale.
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The @ericries podcast has quickly become one of my favourites. This is a great conversation w/ @dgelles on his book about @patagonia's Yvon Chouinard: music.youtube.com/podcast/4q…

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Baratunde Thurston, a fellow speaker at the Masters of Scale Summit: "Seeing someone own their role in the current collapse and try to make it right was shocking tbh, and hella inspiring." howisincorruptiblegoing.com/…
Quote card: Baratunde Thurston, Masters of Scale Summit 2026 speaker: "Watching someone that influential tell a more interdependent story was a gift. Seeing someone own their role in the current collapse and try to make it right was shocking tbh, and hella inspiring."

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Honored to have my Long Now Talk featured in Issue 3 of Pace Layers, The Long Now Foundation’s annual journal of long-term thinking. We explore what it takes to build institutions that endure beyond their founders, a question central to stewardship and long-term thinking. Get it here: lnkd.in/ge_fx3-C

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Issue 3 of Pace Layers, our print annual journal of long-term thinking, is out now. Get it here: shop.longnow.org/products/pa…
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“You can’t plant the tree on the day that you need it.” That’s how Andy Powers, CEO of Taylor Guitars, thinks about building a company that lasts. Taylor invests in trees a century before it might need the wood. That same thinking shaped its transition to employee ownership: a plan built around a 70-year cycle, designed to benefit future hires alongside longtime employees. The question guiding those decisions: What will we be glad we did decades from now? On The Eric Ries Show, Andy and I explore what changes when a company’s ownership, culture, and supply chain all support the same long-term purpose.
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Watch the new episode: Youtube: buff.ly/BKx7YMh Apple Podcasts: buff.ly/AMUMn2d Spotify: buff.ly/a5o5pW0
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Yesterday at SOSV's Deep Tech Summit I talked with @sgblank about how AI is changing the way startups get built, the MVP included. Replay: youtu.be/YM20ef5hnew
SOSV Deep Tech Summit | How AI Forced Steve Blank to Revise His Lean Startup Playbook

SOSV Deep Tech Summit | How AI Forced Steve Blank to Revise His Lean Startup Playbook

Startup gurus Steve Blank and Eric Ries invented the “lean startup”...

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Carol Van Den Hende, Global AI Responsibility Chair at Mars, on Incorruptible: "The thesis is clear, compelling, and actionable." howisincorruptiblegoing.com/…
Quote card: Carol Van Den Hende, Global AI Responsibility Chair, Mars Inc: "This book is for any leader who's felt that purpose-driven businesses create more societal value and would like the data to back that. The thesis is clear, compelling, and actionable."

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I love this comment because at first I was like, "Come on, what are you talking about?" But the more I thought about it, the more I started questioning whether modern shareholder capitalism actually reflects the entrepreneurial ideals we associate with it. We celebrate entrepreneurs for taking risks, creating value, and building businesses that serve customers. Yet many public companies operate under pressure from large institutional shareholders whose priorities may be very different. If the purpose of entrepreneurship is to create something meaningful, shouldn't companies be accountable to the people they serve rather than simply responding to Wall Street? Maybe it's time to rethink what ownership and accountability should look like. #Incorruptible #leadership #business
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Today at 10am PT: Steve Blank and me at the SOSV Deep Tech Summit, on how AI changed his Lean Startup playbook. Free and virtual. sosvdeeptech.com/
Homepage | SOSV Deep Tech Summit

Homepage | SOSV Deep Tech Summit

The Summit starts Nov. 4 at 8:05 am PT

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I've been hugely inspired by @ericries book Incorruptible while.building Achene, and have read it again and again since it was published! I've recently written a blog post about how we're building Achene to follow the principles from his book: achene.app/blog/why-im-build…
Why I'm building Achene to be incorruptible — Achene Blog

Why I'm building Achene to be incorruptible — Achene Blog

Following the principals outlined in Eric Ries's new book Incorruptible to make Achene better for everyone

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Daniel Burka@dburkaNov 3
We thought @ericries book Incorruptible is really quite good. Book review: hardproblems.com/articles/in…
Incorruptible by Eric Ries

Incorruptible by Eric Ries

Eric Ries follows The Lean Startup with a book about mission, ownership, and corporate governance — and why some companies stay great. A review.

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“My grandpa founded Radio Flyer in 1917, and we’re now 109 years into this experiment.” Robert Pasin, CEO, Radio Flyer howisincorruptiblegoing.com/…
Quote card: Robert Pasin, CEO of Radio Flyer, on Incorruptible.

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If you've seen the movie The Social Network, well, that was me, at least in the first half of the movie. My first experience with entrepreneurship felt like something straight out of Hollywood. Ivy League college, big ideas, writing code on windows, and dreams of a billion-dollar exit. But reality had other plans. We didn't make any money, and I ended up going back to school. It was humbling, but it taught me something important: entrepreneurship isn't about being the smartest person in the room or proving everyone wrong. Sometimes failure is where the most valuable learning begins. Looking back, I wouldn't be where I am today without that experience. #Incorruptible #leadership #business
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Erik Visser, an impact investor at Truvalu, on what Incorruptible made him think about: "how we prevent mission drift during or after our exits." howisincorruptiblegoing.com/…
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Five months in: universities, companies and nonprofits putting the ideas in Incorruptible into practice, in their words. Read them all: howisincorruptiblegoing.com
Poster titled Adopted: quotes from universities, companies and nonprofits putting Incorruptible into practice.

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