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Eric Ries: Most corporate organizations lack processes to be true meritocracies
“We say that we're a meritocracy. We say that good ideas can come from anywhere, but we don't mean it. We don't mean that good ideas can come from anywhere because we don't have a process for capturing them and for testing them rigorously. We just hope that the…”
Ries: Entrepreneurship is chaotic individually but manageable as a portfolio
“My view is that entrepreneurship itself is very chaotic and unpredictable and confusing, but entrepreneurship as a portfolio activity, you know, like what VCs do is totally manageable.”
Eric Ries: Career equity outweighs financial equity in companies over 100 employees
“Once you get past 50 or a hundred employees, the fractional ownership that people have, certainly once you get to a thousand employees, the fractional ownership people have is going to be dwarfed by their future career prospects.”