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Eric Ries on the trap that corrupts successful companies | Rapid Response

About Eric

  • Authored iconic bestseller The Lean Startup
  • Founded the Long-Term Stock Exchange
  • Wrote The Startup Way and 2026 book Incorruptible
  • Founder of Answer.AI

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What if the way we think about business value, trust, and capitalism itself is fundamentally broken? Eric Ries’ The Lean Startup changed how a generation of entrepreneurs build companies. Now, Ries takes aim at some of the most sacred business assumptions today in his new book, Incorruptible. Ries joins Rapid Response to share what he witnessed firsthand in the clash between Anthropic and the US government, and why he believes the current system is failing the very people it’s supposed to serve. He also brings in-the-trenches stories from Cloudflare, Novo Nordisk, and Whole Foods to make the case that courage, not capital, may be the most undervalued asset in business right now.

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