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Eric Ries

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01 / evaluation

If you're willing to be principled in your decision making, you will get these unexpected rewards. But most leaders, when asked to defend their principles, can't do it because they've been taught ROI-based thinking, shareholder primacy, that's the path of maximum profitability.

“If you're willing to be principled in your decision making, you will get these unexpected rewards. But most leaders, when asked to defend their principles, can't do it because they've been taught ROI-based thinking, shareholder primacy, that's the path of maximum profitability.”
Speaker
Eric Ries
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

04 / belief

The better way, I think, according to the evidence, is to have some stakeholder, somebody be the steward of the mission and have a way to renew that person, that set of people.

“The better way, I think, according to the evidence, is to have some stakeholder, somebody be the steward of the mission and have a way to renew that person, that set of people.”
Speaker
Eric Ries
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

07 / prediction

If you don't get this right, no other decision you make about your company will matter for the long term because you're not going to be the one making it.

“If you don't get this right, no other decision you make about your company will matter for the long term because you're not going to be the one making it.”
Speaker
Eric Ries
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

08 / evaluation

Because they've been taught ROI-based thinking, they've been taught shareholder primacy, they've been taught that that's the path of maximum profitability.

“Because they've been taught ROI-based thinking, they've been taught shareholder primacy, they've been taught that that's the path of maximum profitability.”
Speaker
Eric Ries
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

11 / evaluation

They weren't even paying any money. And they're like, "Yes, we will incur the wrath of nation state level hackers to protect you because it's the right thing to do for no reward whatsoever.

“They weren't even paying any money. And they're like, "Yes, we will incur the wrath of nation state level hackers to protect you because it's the right thing to do for no reward whatsoever.”
Speaker
Eric Ries
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

12 / preference

Everyone's got a friend like that where if they say they're going to do something, they're going to do it. And more importantly, if they're not sure, if they're like, "I think I can be there at two o'clock," they never would say, "I'll see you at two o'clock.

“Everyone's got a friend like that where if they say they're going to do something, they're going to do it. And more importantly, if they're not sure, if they're like, "I think I can be there at two o'clock," they never would say, "I'll see you at two o'clock.”
Speaker
Eric Ries
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

13 / evaluation

Its purpose is super clear. And again, if you think it doesn't matter what the product manager who runs Hellman's mayonnaise thinks the purpose is, going back to our vital farms question, think how easy it would be when an efficiency consultant shows up and says, "I think we could save three cents on the bill of materials if you just make the thing carcinogenic.

“Its purpose is super clear. And again, if you think it doesn't matter what the product manager who runs Hellman's mayonnaise thinks the purpose is, going back to our vital farms question, think how easy it would be when an efficiency consultant shows up and says, "I think we could save three cents on the bill of materials if you just make the thing carcinogenic.”
Speaker
Eric Ries
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

15 / evaluation

To them, it's just the obviously right way to go. And it's funny to me, one of the most important aspects of it that I think stands up really well, and it's been 15 years, is that so many of these AI products that leaving the models and the underlying technology aside, these specific products that have taken the world by storm, you can really tell that the AI labs themselves did not know they were going to be as popular as they turned out to be.

“To them, it's just the obviously right way to go. And it's funny to me, one of the most important aspects of it that I think stands up really well, and it's been 15 years, is that so many of these AI products that leaving the models and the underlying technology aside, these specific products that have taken the world by storm, you can really tell that the AI labs themselves did not know they were going to be as popular as they turned out to be.”
Speaker
Eric Ries
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast
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