Eric Ries

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"when the founders of Anthropic left OpenAI. So what is that like three or four OpenAI crises ago? when they left like was one of the people that they talked to setting up their governance structure. And not only and again I am not taking credit. Okay, don't do the meme thing, okay? I'm not taking credit for Anthropic's success. Obviously I played only a very big part."

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"when the founders of Anthropic left OpenAI. So what is that like three or four OpenAI crises ago? Crack up. Anyway, it's like hard for me to keep track but anyway it's like it's been it's been a rough you know it's been a rocky road."

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"I was on this panel with every major AI company, Open AI, Anthropic, Cohere, Palantir, Google, Meta, everyone on the one panel together and me for some reason."

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"I was on this panel with every major AI company, Open AI, Anthropic, Cohere, Palantir, Google, Meta, everyone on the one panel together and me for some reason."

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"I just had this conversation with Whole Foods' John Mackey. I I tell a bunch of stories in the book of people who've been through this."

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"I was on this panel with every major AI company, Open AI, Anthropic, Cohere, Palantir, Google, Meta, everyone on the one panel together and me for some reason."

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"I I got into the I originally got into all this from studying Toyota. Do you remember lean startup comes from lean manufacture. Yep. And it's really funny. I can remember when I first was going around just like when we met 2012, talking about lean startup. People would sometimes be like, 'Hey, you're telling us to create the next Toyota, but you're also taking up telling us to build a venture back company and take it public?' Yeah. Like WTF? Like I thought the public markets are super short term, but if you read any books about Toyota, they're super long term."

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"a lot of the techniques and the specific tactics from Lean Startup are a little dated now. I mean you know, Groupon is a case study like it's it's it's old now. It came out in 2011."

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"Claude went to number one when they did that."

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"Polaroid used to be an R&D powerhouse. Had like 1500 research scientists on staff. Steve Jobs like loved that company, admired them so much. When Edwin Lamb was fired, he called it the dumbest thing he'd ever heard."

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"When a guy named Sam Walton was thinking about starting a retailer in Arkansas, he called it Walmart as an intentional tribute to the company Saul created which was called Fedmart."

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"I learned from one of my favorite founders, Todd Park. He created Devoted Health, the health insurance company I was mentioning before."

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"Patagonia is governed with a purpose trust also. You have the trustees but then you also have someone whose job is to sue the trustees if they ever deviate from the mission."

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"Costco just has the rules written right into the structure itself. But that means every time they lose one of the structures, every once in a while an attack chips off a little bit of it. They don't have any way to grow them back."

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"He learned it from Howard Schultz, who built Starbucks. Like if you see in strong culture companies you always see this pattern where you've taught people that whenever you do the right thing that has a sacrifice to it, you're making a deposit in the culture bank."

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"people periodically write these articles that are like such and such company proves that lean startup is over. And they always pick a company like Quibi."

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"Kroger decided to go all in on best practices. So, we have this like natural experiment where like Costco has been like incredibly successful since this moment being having bad governance and Kroger has not had the same level of success. In fact, one analyst called Kroger's performance like Costco in reverse."

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"If you're a Delaware CC Corp, you have to relentlessly pursue profit. Otherwise, there is grounds to remove you. You've already taken wrong steps in this direction. You're already you had an incorporated Delaware CC Corp."