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How to build a company that withstands any era | Eric Ries, Lean Startup author | Spirit Tech Collective
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PodcastLenny's Podcast

How to build a company that withstands any era | Eric Ries, Lean Startup author

With Eric Ries

May 10, 2026 · 99 min listen · Hosted by Lenny Rachitsky

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Why we're sharing it

As founders raise and scale, there are predictable gravitational pulls that bend a company away from its mission, its vision and its impact. Ries calls it financial gravity, and his argument is that good companies go bad through how they are governed, not through anyone's moral failure. Incorruptible is the first real playbook for those pulls and the structures that hold against them - which matters most where the mission is the whole proposition, as it is here.

Chosen by the Spirit Tech Collective · Start here on governance

Questions this episode explores

  1. 1Why most venture-backed founders are out within three years of going public.
  2. 2What financial gravity is, and why it pulls good companies toward mediocrity.
  3. 3Which governance structures actually protect a mission, and which only look like it.
  4. 4The two-page filing that can lock a mission in - and when it stops being available.
  5. 5Why success makes a company a bigger target rather than a safer one.

About the show

Lenny's Podcast: interviews with product leaders and growth experts for concrete, tactical advice on building, launching and growing a product. Hosted by Lenny Rachitsky.

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How to build a company that withstands any era | Eric Ries, Lean Startup author

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