Eric Ries
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621 appearances
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first heard May 2026
last heard 31 May
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It doesn't reflect their values anymore.
They're embarrassed about what it's become.
I hear that all the time.
And I think basically what happened was we taught people a new set of best practices about how to build their company, how to create.
Product market fit from nothing, which I'm very proud of.
But we didn't really teach them how to protect what they had built.
And it turns out that in the world we live in today, everything that is worth protecting will eventually need protection.
That the value, the assets that these companies create are not just dollars and products and customers and employees and contracts.
There's also something else.
I call it trustworthiness.
That when a company is truly
idealistic, when it's mission driven, when it actually tries to create something of high quality, something that is meant to last, something that is meant to make people's lives better, when it treats its employees and customers and investors with respect.
Such a company creates this very precious asset.
I think it's the most underrated asset in the world today, trustworthiness.
And the problem is the more you have this asset, the more valuable you are as a target.
Involved.
Full of some asset.
Someone's going to try to take it from you.
And unfortunately, most of the best practices that we teach founders, leaders, board members, even investors about how companies should be structured, how culture should be formed, how governance should work, are designed to make them weak and easy to influence from the outside, easy to break from the outside.
And so as a result, we're seeing an epidemic all around our economy, all over the world.
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