corporations

4 statements across 4 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Oct 29, 2023 by Eric Ries · across every show →

Everything said about corporations, oldest first

Oct 29, 2023 negative
Opinion
Ries: Shareholder primacy theory fails even at maximizing shareholder returns
“The investor centric view of corporations, what's called the shareholder primacy theory of corporations is just wrong. It's wrong. Even if all you care about is maximizing returns for shareholders.”
Eric Ries Oct 29, 2023 ▶ 1:53:40 Reflections on a movement | Eric Ries (creator of the Lean Startup methodology)
Oct 31, 2024
Insight
Doshi: Managing teams over 50 inevitably forces leaders into optics work
“Any time a team goes to, like, fifties and hundreds and beyond, it is a law of corporations that you're going to have to spend a lot of time at the optics level.”
Shreyas Doshi Oct 31, 2024 ▶ 41:50 4 questions Shreyas wishes he’d asked himself sooner | Former PM leader at Stripe, Twitter, Google
Jul 17, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Shipper: AI may shift the economy to smaller, generalist-led organizations
“The people inside of every can stay generalists for much longer, and I think that that may like sort of ripple out into the rest of the economy where instead of like gigantic massive corporations where like each person is doing like one little like button turn…”
Dan Shipper Jul 17, 2025 ▶ 1:23:25 The AI-native startup: 5 products, 7-figure revenue, 100% AI-written code. | Dan Shipper (Every)
May 10, 2026 neutral
Insight
Ries: Corporations are the oldest form of artificial intelligence
“Corporations, organizations are the oldest form of artificial intelligence on the planet. They are an example of this emergent intelligence, the same scientific principle that makes the transformer architecture work and appear intelligent. That same principle …”
Eric Ries May 10, 2026 ▶ 1:31:20 How Anthropic, Costco, and Patagonia all build incorruptible companies | Eric Ries
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