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Kris Braun, a startup CTO, on where a Toronto book-group discussion of Incorruptible led: "concrete action: rallying around founders building incorruptible, purpose-locked businesses, and pioneering new structures in Canada" howisincorruptiblegoing.com/…
ALT Quote card from Kris Braun, startup CTO, on a Toronto book group turning to action on purpose-locked businesses.
Wednesday at 10am Pacific I’m talking with @sgblank at the SOSV Deep Tech Summit about how AI forced him to revise his Lean Startup playbook.
Free and virtual. sosvdeeptech.com/registratio…
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The recording for "Books in the Box VI" is now up, featuring books we loved from (among others!) @ericries, @scmallaby, @dhmeyer, @PatrickMcGee_, @BradStone, and @KSHartnett. Given a listen and top up your reading queue!
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Michael Kobori, former Chief Sustainability Officer at Starbucks, writing about Incorruptible: "It has elevated short-term shareholder maximization above the purpose of the enterprise." howisincorruptiblegoing.com/…
ALT Quote card from Michael Kobori, former Chief Sustainability Officer, Starbucks, on short-term shareholder maximization.
People who use AI in the wrong way not only are getting dumber, they're being robbed of their ability to judge the quality of their own work.
In a study by METR, developers using AI believed they were about 20% more productive. But when researchers measured their actual performance, they found the opposite: they were 19% slower.
That's the danger of outsourcing too much of our thinking. We can feel like we're making progress while losing the ability to evaluate our own work.
AI isn't the problem. How we use it matters. The goal should be to strengthen our judgment and capabilities, not replace them.
#Incorruptible #leadership #business
A Goodreads reviewer on Incorruptible: "The typical advice for startup founders was: “read The Lean Startup” I’d now recommend updating it to “read The Lean Startup and Incorruptible”." howisincorruptiblegoing.com/…
ALT Quote card from Peter Trizuliak, Goodreads reviewer, recommending The Lean Startup and Incorruptible.
“The way we lead impacts the way people live.”
Raj Sisodia shared this principle from his late coauthor Bob Chapman on The Eric Ries Show. Its implications reach far beyond the workplace.
How someone is treated at work follows them home. It affects their relationships, their children, and the energy they have left for the people they love.
During the 2008 financial crisis, Chapman’s board urged him to lay off 30–40% of employees. Instead, the company shared the burden through furloughs, with executives taking a larger share.
They preserved jobs, strengthened trust, and were ready when demand returned.
Raj’s challenge to leaders: treat the lives entrusted to you as a responsibility. Every decision about performance, costs, and culture touches someone’s life.
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Dave Reilly, advisor to startups and family-owned businesses, on Incorruptible: "good intentions need structural support: ownership, governance and incentives designed to protect a company’s mission through growth and change." howisincorruptiblegoing.com/…
ALT Quote card from Dave Reilly: He makes the case that good intentions need structural support: ownership, governance and incentives designed to protect a company's mission through growth and change.
Never let ChatGPT do the thinking for you.
AI can be an incredible tool, but there's a big difference between using it to learn and letting it do all the work.
Research suggests that relying on AI to write for us can reduce mental engagement and make it harder to remember what we've created.
I'm not against AI. I use it all the time. But I believe the real opportunity is using it to strengthen our thinking, creativity, and capabilities rather than replace them.
Next time you have a task, try asking AI to teach you how to do it instead of doing it for you.
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Brian Behm, founder of Wild Construct: "we organized Wild Construct from the beginning to force the board to base their success metrics on more than just revenue." howisincorruptiblegoing.com/…
ALT Quote card: Brian Behm, founder of Wild Construct: "we organized Wild Construct from the beginning to force the board to base their success metrics on more than just revenue. Definite inspiration from Eric Ries Incorruptible."
Speaking today at 5pm PT in UC Berkeley's A. Richard Newton Lecture Series, over Zoom: NEWTON LIVE: The Lean Startup & Innovation. howisincorruptiblegoing.com/…
What happens when the investors behind a company abandon the principles that made it successful?
Sol Price built FedMart around a simple belief: put customers first. That meant low prices, high wages, and treating customers' interests as a responsibility, not an afterthought.
But one day, he arrived at work to find the locks changed. The company he had built was no longer his to lead.
Maria Rotilu and I discuss on The Startup Leap why founders need to protect their company's values and how the pressure to maximize profits can threaten the very principles that made a business great.
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Eric Ries retweeted
@ericries' writing is one of my biggest influences, so it was a great pleasure to get his take on AI, the Lean Startup 15 years later, and org culture. The answers I got are anything but conventional wisdom.
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Ollie Forsyth on Incorruptible: "values in your head die with your role. Values in your structure outlive you." howisincorruptiblegoing.com/…
ALT Quote card: Ollie Forsyth: "Twenty years of trust, liquidated in 7. @ericries's point: values in your head die with your role. Values in your structure outlive you."
Anthropic filed its S-1 today. Who controls it, per the filing: a trust with no financial stake elects 4 of 7 directors, founders hold a fixed 50.1% of the vote, employees earn votes through tenure and charity pledges, and Amazon and Google can't vote. anthropic.com/news/s1-sec
ALT Infographic: Who controls Anthropic? A plain-English guide to the governance in its S-1 filing: board seats, five classes of stock, the Long-Term Benefit Trust, a comparison with a typical tech IPO, and quotes from the filing.
Since launch, I’ve met so many of you at signings, talks, and events, and many more of you have shared photos with the book. These are some of the faces of Incorruptible. Thank you.
ALT Poster: Faces of Incorruptible. A patchwork of photos of readers with the book and at Eric Ries's book events.
We've accidentally designed companies to behave like sociopaths.
A business can look profitable on paper while pushing its real costs onto customers, employees, communities, and society.
But making money and creating value aren't the same thing.
When companies profit by exploiting the people they're supposed to serve, they may succeed financially in the short term while destroying value in the long run.
We need to rethink what profitability really means and build companies that create value rather than simply extract it.
#Incorruptible #leadership #business