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by eries 4mo ago
Yes, ultimately this is a deep philosophical question. I know most people think it's foolhardy to traverse such waters in a "business book" but I don't mind. If you pay careful attention to the structure of this one, you
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by eries 4mo ago
Yes, I think the causes and symptoms are the same across sectors.
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by eries 4mo ago
Staying small is definitely one way to increase your "span of control" over what happens. But honestly, size is not as much up to you as you think. If you hit product/market fit, you often will be forced to scale up whether y
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by eries 4mo ago
I see a "book a call" button in the lower-right, at least on chrome/macos. Apologies if it's not working on other platforms. TBH, the team has been so overwhelmed with word-of-mouth leads, they probably have neglected th
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by eries 4mo ago
I know they are going through a big restructuring and I think these issues are part of why, but I am not close enough to the details to comment.
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by eries 4mo ago
thank you! Healthcare is a recurring topic in the book, for the reasons you specify. In fact, I call for the adoption of a Director's Oath similar to the Hippocratic Oath for boards. They can do just as much - or even more - harm.
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by eries 4mo ago
nope, it's a coincidence
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by eries 4mo ago
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.
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by eries 4mo ago
I never said they were perfect! Only that they have maintained their autonomy for 40 years.
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by eries 4mo ago
Absolutely. 100% true. But on the other hand, the tools have gotten a lot better, so it's much easier to build a high-quality MVP than it was back then. But in any era, the most important thing to remember is that quality is defined by
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by eries 4mo ago
Ah! Your point about Claude Code is very funny. At a minimum, you can find links to many of the interviews I've done. If it comes across as too promotional, you can always use the "official" website incorruptible.co which is
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by eries 4mo ago
I'm not sure I would group all those companies in with each other, and if you read the book, you'll see that I attempted to make at least one important distinction among them. And it's interesting that people see Lean Startup
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by eries 4mo ago
Yeah, I did my best in the book to find that balance between tech and non-tech stories. You'll find a few tech stories in there, for example Anthropic, GitLab and Cloudflare. And if you want all the horror stories, you can read Cory Do
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by eries 4mo ago
Meanings are contested. The way I use the word is much closer to the way our grandparents used the word than our modern usage. How did it change? Could it change back? I think so.
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by eries 4mo ago
My friend, I know you think this is a criticism. It's pretty obvious that you haven't read the book. I'd encourage you to do so, or at least ask yourself, "Why are you commenting on a book you haven't read?" Th
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by eries 4mo ago
I happen to think that organizations are literally alive. They are superorganisms. To be more scientifically accurate, they are examples of the class of beings which are "emergent intelligence." I don't think there's any
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by eries 4mo ago
There's a whole chapter on this. I actually hate the phrase "human resources," because of course part of the problem with our modern world is that we are treating human beings as a resource to be mined. If people had paid mor
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by eries 4mo ago
I think you need the "always has been" meme.
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by eries 4mo ago
I know you meant this comment as a criticism, but it actually raises a really interesting point of what we mean by "real success." I hope you will elaborate.
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by eries 4mo ago
Thanks for asking. In fact, you can find all the evidence that it's a best seller on howisincorruptiblegoing.com or you can look at this handy infographic: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/eries_incorruptible-new-yor
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by eries 4mo ago
Unfortunately, that is not unique to VC but happens at every layer of the capital stack for reasons I explain, I hope you'll find convincingly in the book. The sad fact is that most VCs are not even consciously aware that they're
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by eries 4mo ago
You can find my interview with R. Edward Freeman here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-stakeholder-podcas...
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by eries 4mo ago
Boy, do I make my best effort in the book to take this idea out to the woodshed and show how this is a complete misunderstanding of what it means to be a for-profit entity. I hope you'll read the book and then come back and let me know
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by eries 4mo ago
Of course, we won't know until you try.
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by eries 4mo ago
I don't see any evidence that these tools or principles are especially limited.
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by eries 4mo ago
I've heard there's this new one that just came out. It's really good.
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by eries 4mo ago
Man, "universally misunderstood?" That's harsh. I don't think you can put an idea out into the world without understanding that some people are going to willfully misunderstand it. We live now, especially in the age wher
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by eries 4mo ago
Learning has always been and still is the bottleneck. You can't outsource it to another country. You can't outsource it to a machine. At the end of the day, the bottleneck exists between the ears, and that process is slow and pain
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by eries 4mo ago
Uhhh, read a newspaper or look at the news. It's pretty dark, man.
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by eries 4mo ago
Well, given that it was the company I founded, LTSE, that made the original petition at the SEC to try to move in this direction, you can guess. At the time, everyone said it was a fool's errand. Now that it seems likely to succeed, we

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