Eric Ries

Six months of salary. That's what Matt Mullenweg offered every Automattic employee to resign if they didn't believe in the company's direction. About 9% took the offer and left.

Eric joined Michael Krigsman on CXOTalk: "No, I don't think the purpose of a company is to make money." howisincorruptiblegoing.com/e/2026-06-26-c…

Jesse Chor, CEO of Bruce, is making his company a Public Benefit Company, and had his AI interview Eric about Incorruptible first.

Marty Cagan, founder of Silicon Valley Product Group, on Incorruptible.

Trust is earned through choice and sacrifice. #IncorruptibleBook #SurveillanceCapitalism #PersonalPower #CultureBank #EthicalChoices #Trustworthy #CompanyValues #ConsumerPower #Activism #ReelsInsight #MakeADifference

Anatomy of an Incorruptible Company -- customerthink.com/anatomy-of-an-… -- Exclusive Interview with Eric Ries -- #leadership

Masters of Scale named Incorruptible to its 2026 Summer Reading List — eleven books for the year.

Eric Ries is the creator of The Lean Startup. He joins @GregorVand to discuss why good companies go bad, building resilient organizations, and what founders and engineers can do to resist corruption. @ericries softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/07/09/eri…

Sol Price had a rule: put customers first. And it worked. #IncorruptibleBook #BusinessEthics #CustomerFirst #SmartBusiness #QualityOverQuantity #Integrity #BusinessMindset #Entrepreneurship #SalesStrategy

More bits worth learning from @ericries on This is Not Advice -- about how to be a writer, so you can be better at what you do. How do you write something specific enough to find an audience... and general enough to be accessible?

@rgmcgrath these stats are in the book, and they are really damning. what's wild to me is that the academic literature has a whole separate section about "killer acquisitions" which about a totally different (also pretty gross) practice. we don't have enough terms to keep track...

This is so sad @ericries has a few choice words to say about the practices of self-dealing extractive firms like much (not all, but much) of Private Equity.

@ideafaktory yup

@ericries Though I've had my issues with them, Vanguard is similarly wired.

What makes a company great and endure? Costco's secret: a fiduciary ethos for customers and a governance fortress against pressure. Integrity that refuses to collapse. #IncorruptibleBook #Costco #BusinessStrategy #CompanyCulture #Leadership #Entrepreneurship #BusinessLessons #Integrity #CorporateGovernance #CustomerFocus #Longevity

@roybahat @loriberenberg could have easily gone on another three hours, the time just flew by

@loriberenberg @ericries Can listen to Eric go on and on, without tiring :)

Every culture has a bank account, @ericries reminds in his new book. Nobody bankrupts a culture all at once. Every decision is either a deposit or a withdrawal. So, are you building equity or spending it? Full piece here: gapingvoid.com/culture-bank-i…

Dave Chase, CEO of Health Rosetta, turned Incorruptible into a 15-item build plan — a five-part punch list naming the specific firms and lawyers founders can use to lock a mission into a company's structure.

Zita Cobb's Shorefast — and the Fogo Island Inn — is one of the companies profiled in Incorruptible. She posted this when the book came out.

Frances Frei, a professor at Harvard Business School, on Incorruptible.

Watch this awesome Deep Tech Live interview of @ericries, author of the phenomenal new business book #Incorruptible. With the incomparable host SOSV GP @pobronson. Please look it up the book and buy it. It's great. youtube.com/watch?v=pq8zf5…

Do you want your lawyer using ChatGPT? #IncorruptibleBook #AIethics #ChatGPT #FakeCitations #LegalTech #TechSafety #VerifyAI #AIResponsibility #FutureOfLaw

if only i had read this on time. reading the lean startup in 2026 feels like rewatching a movie you've already seen, except eric wrote the script before the movie existed. MVPs, build-measure-learn, validated learning... this man described how we all build today, back in 2011. half the advice on tech twitter is just this book rephrased. @ericries i appreciate the years of dedication that went into this. it shows on every page. not even done with the book yet and i can already tell the best chapters are ahead. can't wait to finish it.