Eric Ries
25 statements across 3 episodes · 8 bullish · 3 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Marc Andreessen · said 7 times in 4 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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Jan 2, 2019 positive
Andreessen recommends 'Lean Startup', 'Hard Thing About Hard Things', 'Zero to One'
“The Lean Startup book by Eric Reese is very, very good and that book should be read front to back. Second is, ah, Ben Horowitz's book, The Hard Thing About Hard Things, I can't recommend too highly. And the third is Peter Thiel just wrote a book called Zero to…”
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Ries: MVPs Maintain Stakeholder Interest Before Hockey-Stick Growth Hits
“So I think of Lean Startup and MVPs in particular as a way to demonstrate progress towards the vision to sustain that interest over time during the long flat part of the hockey stick when the vanity metrics are really low and there isn't Instantaneous, overnig…”
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Ries: Functional silos block enterprises from spending $2M to commercialize breakthroughs
“These companies can spend through their technology readiness level, you know, analysis and portfolio, like they can do the smart research to spend five, 10, 15, fifty million dollars To have a breakthrough. And then they often are not able to spend the like tw…”
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Ries: Most corporations planning internal startups lack an actual execution plan
“The idea that you're going to act like a startup or have internal startups is like almost to the point of cliche here. And yet most of the companies that I meet that have that as a plan, there's no plan. They don't actually know how to make it happen.”
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Ries: MVPs are for testing consequential visions, not cheap features
“The core mistake I think people make is they think that it's a minimum product, right? Like if you're trying to do something small in this world, you don't need to do an MVP. You just do it. Like if it's, if the thing itself is cheap and easy and has an obviou…”
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Ries: 'The Lean Startup' Focuses on Management Accounting, Not Jargon
“If you read the book, the vast majority of it, the bulk of it by weight is not about, you know, This jargon, but it's about the management system. It's about the innovation accounting. It's about the math that underlies this way of working.”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Ries: Open platform strategies create smaller pieces of larger aggregate markets
“If you make those tools available to other people so that you don't have complete control, if you turn it into a platform, if you give people open access, the sum total of the creative power that you unleash when you do that means that you have a smaller piece…”
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Ries hosts a secret tech meetup where Lean terminology is banned
“I have a secret product managers, like a meetup group that I do for one of the big tech companies where we get together. It's secret. I can't name the group... Because they work in a company that has a real strong, non-invented here culture, and lean startup i…”
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
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Ries: Lean methodology must continuously evolve and obsolete its own prior teachings
“Lean startup stands for what works. So if I said something wrong, if we discover ourselves as a movement, we use our own scientific process to discover new things, they obsolete the old things, and we should always be getting better, and what we wrote five yea…”
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Ries: Corporate bureaucracy and slowness at scale are choices, not inevitable
“I have become a believer that even that the bureau, that the bureaucracy and slowness and kind of ossification that we take for granted as a result of scale is not an inevitable development, but it's a choice about the systems of management that we use.”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Ries: Entrepreneurs can now rent the means of production to scale
“We are now living through a time where you can rent the means of production, which means that if you want to test an idea, if you want to start something in your dorm room at Harvard, You know, just because you started small doesn't necessarily mean it can't s…”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Kupor: Eric Ries is collaborating with policymakers on Long Term Stock Exchange
“Eric is working with a lot of folks in DC to think about this concept of, he calls it the long-term stock exchange, but again, similar idea, which is how do we incent both management teams and employees, as well as incent shareholders to kind of think longer t…”