Eric Ries
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621 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 31 May
Eric Ries’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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and not feel like Lean Startup is displacing or attacking what they believe, but rather it's an extension or an allied movement to what they're doing.
I do think that was a important part of it.
I hope it was also well written.
I hope people also liked it because my personal story was interesting or I don't know.
You never know about those factors.
But I think the underlying structural factors also mattered a great deal.
It was very confusing.
I mean, for a long time I didn't know what to tell people I did for a living.
And everyone was always unsatisfied with it because people who thought I should
embrace being an author only, were like, look, you gotta go become a consultant.
You gotta go build a consulting practice.
You gotta go do all this, you gotta become famous.
You gotta be like Tim Ferriss.
You gotta go on T V There's like a celebrity public intellectual kind of path you can go down.
And then people who thought I was betraying my founder roots were like, No, no, no, you gotta leave all that behind and just become they were like use all that they were like all that trust and goodwill you built up with people.
You can use it to squeeze money out of them by being a founder and
Being what I so like people were constantly pitching me all kinds of stuff.
I should become an investor, I should become this.
But the truth is, to me, I love ideas.
So the idea of it, the learning journey for me, and the intellectual side of it was always really important.
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