Eric Ries
24 statements across 2 episodes · 4 bullish · 4 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 29, 2023 by Eric Ries · said 5 times in 3 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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Oct 29, 2023 neutral
Oct 29, 2023
Ries: Retention requires synthetic notifications, organic notifications, or internal positioning
“And it's actually, there's not that many things it can be. Like, it might be because you gave them a synthetic notification, like, hey, please come back to my product, and they did. It could be because some kind of organic notification took place, like, that i…”
Oct 29, 2023 positive
Oct 29, 2023 negative
Ries: Founders debating if they have product-market fit do not have it
“If you're asking whether you should pivot or not, you probably know the answer already. That's the first thing to just like straight up say, we will, like people call me sometimes. They're like, I want to know if I have product market fit. Like, well, the fact…”
Oct 29, 2023 negative
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Oct 29, 2023 neutral
Oct 29, 2023
Oct 29, 2023 negative
Ries: Second book editions ruin original works by over-qualifying arguments
“When I was a consumer of books, I hated it when authors would come out with a second edition that would destroy what was beautiful about the first edition, including the mistakes. Because like in their attempt to put disclaimers on everything and make everythi…”
Oct 29, 2023 positive
Oct 29, 2023 neutral
Oct 29, 2023
Ries: First-time founders are usually stubborn about testing core hypotheses
“First time founders especially are usually very stubborn about this and they don't want to do it. It's like, look, you tell me what you believe. I don't have to be right. And I want to just double check that you're right. What, by however we do it.”
Oct 29, 2023
Ries: Candidates fail when asked when a best practice does not apply
“My favorite interview question of all time is to ask people to describe a best practice that they learned in their career, and to really get into it. Like, tell me the story of how you learned the best practice, like how, you know, whatever, whatever, and you …”
Oct 29, 2023
Ries: Difficulty scoping MVPs stems from founders refusing to admit unknowns
“The thing I learned is that if people are having trouble coming with MVP, the problem is usually upstream in the chain of deductive reasoning from the vision down to the MVP. It's like usually people are just not super clear on what do I want to learn, and it'…”
Oct 29, 2023
Oct 29, 2023
Eric Ries: Creators bear responsibility for whether their work is net positive
“When you make something put out into the world, on the one hand, you don't have any control about what happens next. And yet I do think we bear a certain responsibility about was it in fact net positive, but was it helpful to people?”
Oct 29, 2023
Ries: Coherent product design requires a single leader making cross-department trade-offs
“The most important thing you have to do in a product is make trade off decisions. And if you just let people make their own trade off decisions, it's totally different. It's really difficult to have any kind of coherent design like thrust. And so the idea is l…”
May 10, 2026 positive
May 10, 2026 bullish
May 10, 2026
May 10, 2026 neutral
Ries: Human alignment, not technical alignment, is AI's top unsolved problem
“This is the number one unsolved problem in AI. It's not the tech, we're making great progress on the technical alignment problem, but we haven't made jack progress on the human alignment problem, which is that we've known since the development of Conway's laws…”
May 10, 2026 negative
Success, not competition, destroys many leading companies
“All kinds of famous companies where the thing that destroyed them was not competition. It was not someone else came up with a better product. No. Their very success became a liability, because the more gold in the goose, the greater the temptation to butcher.”
May 10, 2026
May 10, 2026 neutral
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 …”