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Incorruptible by Eric Ries
Why good companies go bad and how great companies stay great
97 followers
Why good companies go bad and how great companies stay great
97 followers
Instant NY Times bestseller from Eric Ries, creator of The Lean Startup. Incorruptible reveals the structural forces ("financial gravity") that pull great companies away from their founding purpose, and the governance design that lets the best ones resist it. The book offers the blueprint for organizations that can grow, prosper, and endure without losing their soul. 💬 Launch AMA with Eric 📘 Free implementation guide for Product Hunt incorruptible.co/resources/guide-for-ph
Incorruptible by Eric Ries
Hey Product Hunt 👋
Two weeks ago I published a new bestselling book. While The Lean Startup helps entrepreneurs create valuable organizations, Incorruptible covers why and how to protect them.
I wanted to run a launch here because Product Hunt's audience (founders, operators, people who actually build things) is exactly who the book is for. What's most exciting to me is the emotional response and the early adopters already applying these protections to their companies.
Corruption in companies almost never starts with bad people. It's structural. There's a gravitational pull toward extraction, toward the next quarter, toward "best practices" that quietly hollow you out. Unless you design against it, it wins. The book is about how the best companies (Costco, Patagonia, Novo Nordisk, Cloudflare, Anthropic) build what I call a governance fortress.
For anyone who wants to take the frameworks further, I'm sharing the implementation guide free with Product Hunt folks at www.incorruptible.co/resources/g.... It's the workshop version, in writing.
I'll be in the comments all day. Ask me anything about financial gravity, mission-controlled companies, why I think a lot of startup advice (including some of my own) needs an update for the AI era, or where you're seeing the patterns in companies you know.
Genuinely excited for this discussion.
Eric
Loving this book. Exactly what is needed right now - extractive capitalism is bleeding us dry. Is there a point in time where the scales tipped to the short-termism? Also, are there examples where a government has intervened to rebalance?
Best book ever.
How many of us just want to work with good people who find joy in finding ever more innovative new ways to bring more joy to others in our offerings?
That should be easy, right?
But it's not.
The corruption of the corporate world has driven me mad for decades.
I moved to Silicon Valley in 2009 because it seemed like the only hope for finding “Don’t be evil” companies who could sustain that vow.
This is the happiest I’ve been in a very long time.
I am so very grateful for this book and everyone who is working to create a world in which this vision might actually become real.
I’ve been spreading the word at London Tech Week, lots of minds to be convinced!
The leaders at my company need to read this right now.