Eric Ries
@ericries.bsky.social
Trying to change how startups are built formerly @ericries on the bird app New Book coming May 2026: INCORRUPTIBLE: Why Good Companies go bad... And How Great companies Stay Great Pre-order now and receive exclusive bonuses at: http://incorruptible.co
The Goodreads reviews are in for Incorruptible: 216 ratings, 48 reviews. incorruptible.co
Jesse Chor, CEO of Bruce, is making his company a Public Benefit Company, and had his AI interview Eric about Incorruptible first.
Will Preble, founder and CEO of Covenant Labs, on Incorruptible. howisincorruptiblegoing.com/e/2026-04-12...
Marty Cagan, founder of Silicon Valley Product Group, on Incorruptible.
Cecilia Macaulay, permaculture designer, on Incorruptible. howisincorruptiblegoing.com/e/2025-12-24...
Masters of Scale named Incorruptible to its 2026 Summer Reading List — eleven books for the year.
Frances Frei, Harvard Business School professor, on Incorruptible. howisincorruptiblegoing.com/e/2026-04-03...
Incredible podcasts from @techdirt.com interviewing @ericries.bsky.social:
How To Stop Good Companies From Going Bad — Techdirt
The concept of “enshittification” has helped illuminate why companies and their products so often get worse over time, but the causes of this process are complex and multifaceted. In his new book Incorruptible, author Eric Ries presents a related but contrasting take on how good companies go bad, and how to build companies that resist the process. This week, Eric joins the podcast to talk all about the book and what we might be able to do to solve this problem. Get the book: https://www.incorruptible.co/
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Some of the business thinkers who have praised Incorruptible.
Oliver Evans, co-founder of The KINN, wrote this after a Q&A with Eric. howisincorruptiblegoing.com/e/2026-06-22...
What's incredible about this graph is that even with everything going on, they still cannot manage to get to the level of performative outrage from 2023...
Official congressional e-newsletters mentioning "corruption" over time, by party
This thread made me unnaturally happy. I am not sure if it's the strong meme game or just the intimation that Incorruptible will make a fun beach read (which I really hope it will). But either way, I hope @davekarpf.bsky.social will enjoy the rest of the book...
Currently reading @ericries.bsky.social’s new book, Incorruptible. It is… really quite good. Much more radical than I was expecting.
Worth magazine ran a review of Incorruptible by Jason Allen Ashlock. howisincorruptiblegoing.com/e/2026-06-26...
Currently reading @ericries.bsky.social’s new book, Incorruptible. It is… really quite good. Much more radical than I was expecting.
Shaquille O'Neal: I Owe You An Apology
Alt: Shaquille O'Neal: I Owe You An Apology
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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.
Sebastian Ross, a Conscious Capitalism board member and co-founder of IESE's School of Founders, on Incorruptible. howisincorruptiblegoing.com/e/2026-06-30...
Haroon Meer, founder of Thinkst Canary, on Incorruptible. howisincorruptiblegoing.com/e/2026-07-04...
This one moves me. Readers I'll never meet, longtime critics, and authors I've admired for years — none of them comparing notes — have independently called Incorruptible their book of the year, or of the decade. Grateful for every voice in it.
The pattern is everywhere, once you know to look for it. From my new book Incorruptible — pre-order: incorruptible.co
Healthy competition rewards better products, but broken incentives reward cutting corners. #Leadership #Business #Innovation #Strategy #LongTermThinking
Profit was once the outcome of serving society, not the reason a company was allowed to exist. #Business #Leadership #PurposeDriven #CorporateGovernance #LongTermThinking
Sinéad Clarkin, who worked at The Lean Startup Company, on Incorruptible. howisincorruptiblegoing.com/e/2026-06-28...
Every time a great company loses its spark, it's worth asking whether short-term incentives quietly replaced long-term stewardship. #Leadership #CorporateGovernance #BusinessStrategy #Innovation #BrandBuilding
Seven readers. Different industries, different seats at the table. Every one of them described the same thing happening inside their companies.
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...
Six weeks ago this was just a manuscript I was nervous about. Thank you to everyone who put it on these lists.
Jesse Chor, CEO of Bruce, is making his company a Public Benefit Company, and had his AI interview Eric about Incorruptible first.