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shareholder value

2 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 22, 2026 by Eric Ries · across every show →

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May 22, 2026 negative
Insight
Ries: Making shareholder value the primary goal degrades product quality
“Everyone who's ever studied this and looked at it seriously understands that shareholder value is like the exhaust that comes out of the engine. When you take the exhaust pipe and put it in the intake and make that your explicit goal, now you don't stand for a…”
Eric Ries May 22, 2026 ▶ 13:24 How The Best Companies Defend Against Mediocrity And Rot · Y Combinator
May 22, 2026
Assertion Partly supported
Ries: 19th-century corporate charters never specified maximizing shareholder value
“If you look at the 19th century, like companies that were created and you read their charter, none of them say maximize shareholder value. That would have been considered a crime.”
Eric Ries May 22, 2026 ▶ 23:44 How The Best Companies Defend Against Mediocrity And Rot · Y Combinator
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