#168 — Why Good Companies Go Bad: Eric Ries

#168 — Why Good Companies Go Bad: Eric Ries

June 2, 2026 · 40 min

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Eric Ries discusses his new book 'Incorruptible' and the underlying issues in how companies have been run over the past fifty years.

New on the Outthinkers Podcast, supported by LHH, host Kaihan Krippendorff speaks with Eric Ries — author of the landmark The Lean Startup — about his new book Incorruptible, and why the way we've run companies for the last fifty years may be fundamentally corrupt. Not in the dramatic, headline-grabbing sense, but in the older, quieter sense of the word: a slow corrosion of the bonds that make an organisation strong, trusted, and worth building in the first place. In this conversation...

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