Eric Ries
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 8 Jun
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I'm incredibly proud of my role in it, but I've also seen the dark underbelly of this thing.
And as I tell in the book, it really came home to me one day when I was talking to two different entrepreneurs on the same day, one of whom was just beginning his entrepreneurial journey and one of whom was completing it in a way.
And the new entrepreneur I called the professor in the book to protect his privacy, he was really confused because he was trying to create this breakthrough new technology.
And his investors were like very amoral about it.
He's actually trying to recruit like senior researchers.
They have really tough questions.
They're asking him, okay, how do we know you're only going to use this technology the way we intend?
He's like, well, I promise.
Oh yeah?
What if they fire you?
And he's like, what am I supposed to say that?
Meanwhile, I'm going to this event where we are commemorating a founder who had left his company, but not voluntarily.
He had built billions of dollars of shareholder value and yet his investors wanted more and they had pushed him out.
Despite doing everything right, the way we teach entrepreneurs today, that success will make them strong.
Success will give them power and therefore freedom.
We forget to mention that the more successful your organization, the more valuable it is as a target for someone to steal from you.
We take over a company, we betray its promises, we extract value from it.
Ironically, the most trustworthy companies are the most valuable to do that with.
Our grandparents would have called this corruption.
And so I think we should bring that word back, expand its definition once again to involve any kind of economic activity that makes money without creating value.
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