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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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"organizational corruption isn't a character problem. It's a design problem." — Dave Chase, Health Rosetta howisincorruptiblegoing.com/…
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New episode of This Is Not Advice 🎤 The job that this episode is all about: how to be an author, from the first page to the last. Welcome the inimitable @ericries, author of the new Incorruptible (and some other things of which you may have heard).
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"We spend so much of our energy and time on the question of what should companies be allowed to do or not do?... What should we ought to want to do?" @ericries discusses Incorruptible: Why Good Companies Go Bad... and How Great Companies Stay Great: buff.ly/3Kcgl0I
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Harvard data shows only 20% of founders remain CEO 3 years post-IPO. Eric Ries joins The Saturday Salon to expose how shareholder primacy destroys your mission and how to legally protect it. Stream on Apple Podcast, Spotify & YouTube! @ericries #ericries
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10 days to ship to Singapore, but my copy of #Incorruptible by @ericries finally arrived! Loved The Lean Startup, so I'm excited for this one. My work at @Microsoft already gives me a great everyday ethics foundation to build on.
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Being incorruptible is the right strategy @ericries The hero’s journey isn’t a straight line, when you’re going down it feels like it’s going to be forever…
JUST IN: Andrej Karpathy, a top AI scientist at Anthropic, is reportedly barred from accessing the company’s most advanced AI model because he is not a U.S. citizen.
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Had such a great moment today with @ericries !! Always mindblowing to discuss life as a founder with him! Today we discussed @AnthropicAI and @SpaceX IPO as well 👊 Get his new bestsellere here: simonandschuster.com/books/I…
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"A book whose time has come." — Steen Thomsen, Professor of Corporate Governance, Copenhagen Business School howisincorruptiblegoing.com/…
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A special episode of the JustPaid Podcast is releasing this Monday. @danielkivatinos Kivatinos sits down with @ericries — creator of the Lean Startup method, founder of LTSE, and author of the new book Incorruptible: Why Good Companies Go Bad…and How Great Companies Stay Great. This is a founder-to-founder conversation on what it really takes to build companies that last — not just companies that grow fast, but companies that stay aligned with their mission as they scale. Full episode drops Monday. Stay tuned.
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Should someone passing through have the same vote as someone who has committed for the long term? In public markets, that’s often what happens. A short-term shareholder can influence the future of a company they may not care about tomorrow. @ericries challenges us to rethink ownership, voting rights, and governance—not as technical details, but as design choices that determine whether a company can stay true to its mission. Because if everyone gets a vote, the real question is: who is the company being built for? #Incorruptible #EricRies #CorporateGovernance #BusinessStrategy #LongTermThinking #MissionDrivenBusiness #ShareholderValue #FutureOfCapitalism #Leadership #OwnershipDesign #PurposeDrivenBusiness #CompanyBuilding #Outthinkers
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"This book will possibly be more important than the Lean Startup ever was – for you, your company and society as a whole." — Steve Blank howisincorruptiblegoing.com/…
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"We are in an era of temporary organizations being led by temporary managers for the benefit of temporary owners." On the latest podcast, @ericries talks about his new book, Incorruptible: Why Good Companies Go Bad... and How Great Companies Stay Great: buff.ly/3Kcgl0I
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Saw @joelgascoigne reading this and now I can’t put it down @ericries
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RT @ryangtanaka: Incorruptable by @ericries has been a pretty interesting read so far - it goes into great detail about how great things un…
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Save the Date! Friday, 26 June 2026 #CXOTalk guest will be @EricRies, author of "Lean Startup" and now "Incorruptible." #Business #Leadeship #Incorruptible #Ethics
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So… I’m in a book! And not just any book, but @darbysaxbe amazing new book called “Dad Brain: The New Science of Fatherhood And How It Shapes Men’s Lives.” I’m in there with some good company too - @ericries, @StewFriedman, @TVietor08 and past Startup Dad guest @sullivanpaul. I got the chance to share some or my story that led to the creation of Startup Dad, the “business case” for Dad Brain, being the first person at Lyft to have a kid and fumbling through those early days as a Dad Startup employee pretending that I was sleeping enough or didn’t need to get home to the family. But the best thing I shared is my morning coffee routine with some fellow Dads in front of our kids school. It’s my Coffee Klatch and helps me start each day fresh, rejuvenated and talking Dad and community topics with my “Dadvisory Board” (a future Startup Dad episode gets into this concept). Darby’s telling of these stories and her entire book is both academically fascinating and expertly written. It’s witty, funny, and approachable. You could read it on the beach on vacation and you’d love it. And Darby has quickly become one of my favorite experts on the science behind becoming a Dad. Give it a read - you can get it everywhere books are sold - and it just started shipping yesterday. Thanks Darby Saxbe for including me. It’s an honor!
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"He has unearthed a treasure trove of structural methods that work to keep the mission in business." — Jean Hammond, EdTech angel investor amazon.com/Incorruptible-Goo… incorruptible.co

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Double-dose of AMAs today: ask me anything on ProductHunt or Hacker News
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kind of stunned that this AMA is staying so high on the HN leaderboard! I'm doing my best to keep up with the firehose of questions. Keep 'em coming.
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and, not to be outdone, some of the first questions on PH
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wait, what, #1 spot on HN? Oh you think you can overwhelm me with questions. Is that all you got? Bring it on!
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