Generally speaking if a company can game the system they will game the system.
I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA
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Re: I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA
#382How would you expect this dynamic to change considering potentially "consistent" actors in AI / Automation? How do you imagine companies with staying power will be shaped in the future? Will we see new paradigms in management? ie smaller teams, jack of all trade types of individuals vs specialists, potentially the elimination of middle management all together
yes, certainly. There's a section in the bonus content of the book about Answer.AI and how we have attempted to use LLMs to create a company of "management without managers" and how it's going.
I wonder whether a layering like "Human -> LLM -> Human -> LLM -> Human" would work and provide the best of both worlds if designed and enforced well.
Re: I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA
#383Earlier quoted context omitted.
The parent comment didn’t say anything about size or wall street. It said leadership is what has preserved it. Which it doesn’t seem you have refuted in any meaningful way. You just restated what the parent comment is responding to with no further reasoning as to why leadership doesn’t account for it.
I honestly don't understand your comment, so let me try and recapitulate what I think you're saying and what I think I was saying, and then you can tell me where I missed the mark. What I hear you saying is that the original comment simply said that leadership by itself is enough to preserve the Costco ethos. It didn't say anything about size or Wall Street or anything else. Is that right? The reason I responded the…
This reply genuinely reads like AI and I don't mean to insult you. Perhaps large language models have been trained too much on your books. Your first 2 to 3ish paragraph (explanation and rephrasing) is very characteristic of an AI when they're pressed (e.g. on why they recently hallucinated).
Re: I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA
#384"The Lean Startup" was recommended to me about 10 years ago in the short phase when I was trying to build a startup (cool prototypes, no business model or product market fit, and starting the project with half the seed money I thought I needed to get it off the ground made it a short project). It was a big influence on me and something I recommend and quote often. I'm curious if your perspectives on the topics of "Th…
Definitely, AI makes certain kinds of MVPs a lot easier to produce, so that's great. Unfortunately, some people are being encouraged to outsource their own thinking to the AI. For them, it doesn't seem to make the learning any faster. In fact, I know some people that it has made the learning quite obviously slower.
Re: I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA
#385Generally speaking if a company can game the system they will game the system.
But should they want to game the system? Do you want to game the system? If the answer is no, maybe you have some interest in learning how to build a company that would be able to resist that temptation in the future.
Re: I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA
#386Read 'The lean startup' - it has shaped the way I think about building products! With big companies with large budgets bulldozing smaller players - any advice on finding a niche that is worth pursuing?
I've talked about this in a couple of recent interviews, and if you can't find one, I'll try to find you the link. This question about what it's like when you're in a platform war and the platforms are like these massive bulldozers is kind of an old bit of entrepreneurial lore that, at least when I first came to Silicon Valley, I was taught many years ago. We haven't had a bona fide platform war in a while, so I think some of that lore has passed out of common memory. Generally speaking, what you want to do is what's called a market resegmentation, where you find some section of the market that the bulldozers are not going to pass over, or where you control the customer because they are loyal to you and you can play the platforms off each other.
Re: I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA
#387Time flies! Can't believe it's been 15 years already. Congrats on publishing your new book!
Thank you. I can't believe it's been this long.
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#388Most relevant question in today's world seems to me how to create incorruptible governments?
Organizations are organizations in the end, so hopefully you'll find something relevant in the book too.
Re: I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA
#389It's interesting how none of the top comments mentions capitalism as the reason for companies losing their original mission. It's the same force that causes enshittification: the (unachieavable) infinite pursuit of profit. Sooner or later all companies will fall into the "financial gravity". The ones the author mentioned just haven't gotten there yet.
Re: I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA
#390Can a 50yr old + introvert be a successful tech founder or is it best they stick to their corporate job at a soulless megacap? haha.. thanks
In some industries, older entrepreneurs have a big advantage over younger entrepreneurs, so it kind of depends on what you've been doing and what you're good at.