“Today my guest is Eric Reese, author of the most influential and impactful book in startup history, the lean startup.”
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Eric Ries
Creator of the Lean Startup methodology; founder and executive chairman of the Long-Term Stock Exchange; former founder and CTO.
2 episodes · 3 sourced appearances
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“today my guest is Eric Reese”
“he is most famous for creating the Lean Startup methodology and movement”
Frameworks in these episodes
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Leadership4 steps
Harder Is Easier (The Figure-It-Out Principle)
Commit to the costly right thing up front, and the trust it earns makes everything else easier.
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Innovation4 steps
Leap-of-Faith MVP Scoping
Scope the smallest build that tests your riskiest assumption, not a stripped-down product
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Strategy4 steps
Mission Drive Audit
Prove you're mission-driven by showing you cannot profit except by achieving the mission.
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Entrepreneurship5 steps
Mission-Protective Provisions Playbook
Lock in founder and mission protections now, while you still have the leverage to do it.
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Mindset3 steps
Robust-Across-Futures Action
When the future is unknowable, choose actions that are ethical across a wide range of scenarios
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Mindset3 steps
Show Me the Apparatus Test
A value is only real if there's an expensive apparatus that enforces it every time, no exceptions.
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Strategy4 steps
Spiritual Holding Company (Mission Guardian Selection)
Give the mission its own sovereignty by appointing a renewable guardian that outlives any founder.
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Communication2 steps
The Best-Practice Inversion Interview
Ask a candidate for a best practice, then for when it would not apply
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Leadership3 steps
The Chief Engineer Trade-off Owner
Give one person moral authority over a whole product to keep design coherence in one head
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Leadership3 steps
The Culture Bank (Todd Park's Deposit Rule)
Treat trustworthiness as an asset: only ever make deposits, never intentionally make a withdrawal.
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Strategy4 steps
The Fixed-Window Pivot Decision
Time-box a full-focus test on the one thing that matters, then let the team name the next bet
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Marketing4 steps
The Sticky Engine of Growth
Model retention by the three, and only three, reasons a customer returns to your product
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Leadership4 steps
Trust-by-Structure Governance
Embed your promises into the company's structure so they hold even when you're gone
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- Alibaba
- Amazon
- Andor
- Anthropic
- Apple Podcasts
- Atlassian
- Berkshire Hathaway
- Box
- ChatGPT
- Claude
- Claude Code
- Cloudflare
- Costco
- Disney
- Glitch
- GPT-4
- Groupon
- Hacker News
- IMVU
- Incorruptible: Why Good Companies Go Bad and How Great Companies Stay Great
- incorruptible.co
- Jira Product Discovery
- Lenny's Newsletter
- Levoit Classic 300S Ultrasonic Smart Humidifier
- Linear
- Long-Term Stock Exchange
- Loom
- OpenAI
- Palo Alto
- Patagonia
- PayPal
- Philip Morris
- Quibi
- Retool
- Sanity
- Segment
- Shopify
- Silicon Valley
- Slack
- Smithsonian Institution
- Spotify
- Star Wars
- Starbucks
- Stripe
- The Dandelion Dynasty
- The Enlightened Capitalists
- The Lean Startup
- The Murderbot Diaries
- Toyota
- Venmo
- Virgil
- Whole Foods Market
- WorkOS
- World of Warcraft
- Y Combinator
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