Bureaucracy was once a breakthrough. Today, it’s become a costly drag on innovation, human potential, and business impact. I sit down with Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini, authors of Humanocracy, to explore how organizations can move beyond outdated management models and unlock true human thriving.

I hadn't considered this angle; I wonder what will happen as a result

Patagonia has always been different. While so many companies lose their way when profits come before people, the planet, or even their own products, Patagonia continues to stay true to its values.

not true. reporting was semiannual until 1970. many UK and EU companies also report semiannually

There's really good evidence that quarterly reporting is costing the US economy billions. Studies suggest it's at least a 5% tax on the value of every company that forced to report this way. It's time to do something about it: www.wsj.com/finance/regu...

What if your company’s mission turned out to be bigger than you imagined? Today, I speak with Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare, now a $70 billion company defending 20% of all internet traffic.

In this episode of The Eric Ries Show, I’m joined by Guillermo Rauch, CEO and founder of Vercel—a company powering the front end of the internet for brands like OpenAI, Nintendo, Chick-fil-A, and many more.

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

Tom Lehrer was the absolute GOAT. May he rest in peace. Among the many awesome things he did, near the end of his life, he put all of his work in the public domain, including music, lyrics and his performance notes.

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

Anil, thanks, very much appreciated!

A quick @skylight.social update ✨ If you’re a creator posting videos to Skylight ⬇️ drop a comment! I want to come follow you!! Shout out to all of the people who helped us troubleshoot sign-in earlier 💕 Y’all are literally the backbone of this operation 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

In this episode of The Eric Ries Show, I’m joined by Sid Sijbrandij, co-founder and Executive Chair of GitLab—one of the world’s most radically transparent and values-driven software companies.

I love talking with @ericries.bsky.social. Eric wrote the blockbuster "The Lean Startup", launched Long-Term Stock Exchange , and so much more. We both believe companies can thrive financially and innovate, and treat employees and customers well, at the same time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_Zc...

I love talking with @ericries.bsky.social. We both believe that capitalism and caring about people (rather than acting like a selfish asshole) are compatible and desirable goals.

In this episode of The Eric Ries Show, I’m joined by @bobsutton.net, organizational psychologist and New York Times bestselling author of several influential books on leadership, behavior, and workplace culture, including his latest: The Friction Project.

What does it take to challenge a century-old status quo in aviation? In this episode of The Eric Ries Show, I sit down with Blake Scholl, Founder and CEO of Boom Supersonic, a company on a mission to bring back supersonic air travel—sustainably and affordably.

Incredibly grateful to @jay.bsky.team and the entire @bsky.app team for building the AT Protocol and taking on the burden of building an ENTIRE social network just to prove that open social can work. Thanks for shouting out @skylight.social! We stand on the shoulders of giants 🙌🏽

In this episode of The Eric Ries Show, I’m joined by Maria Colacurcio, Co-Founder and CEO of Syndio, a workplace equity analytics platform. Syndio helps companies close pay gaps and build high-trust organizations.

attn please, here is some further Murderbot footage to enjoy incl the definitely best little moment in All Systems Red

Has anyone created a video yet based on the idea that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was sent to Narkina 5?

🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨 We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely! airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

"I write this letter as the sun rises, hoping that the suspension of my rights will raise alarm bells that yours are already in jeopardy."

In this episode of The Eric Ries Show, I sit down with Ev Williams—someone whose work has profoundly shaped the modern internet. Ev co-founded Twitter, created Medium, and before all that, built Blogger, the original blogging platform.

this was a fun interview

My favourite idea from The Lean Startup by @ericries.bsky.social: Everything a startup does [every product, feature, marketing campaign] is an experiment designed to achieve validated learning. ↳ Validated learning = backed up by empirical data collected from real customers.

Spectech is hiring a program associate for the Brains Research Accelerator! Are you/do you know someone relatively early in their career who has: - Technical training - Intense attention to detail - An interest in ambitious research programs? If so, please get in touch. spec.tech/jobs

In this episode of The Eric Ries Show, I'm joined by Jess Mah, an extraordinary entrepreneur who launched her first six-figure business in middle school and went on to co-found more than 10 companies collectively valued at over $1 billion.

THEY ARE DOING SANCTUARY MOON THIS IS NOT A DRILL

Wish that you spent your Friday doing something besides checking if TikTok was banned or not? Try out @skylight.social — a video app built upon the same open network as Bluesky. You can login with your Bluesky account, and all of your followers seamlessly come with you.

friendly reminder that building on atproto gives you immediate access to >30 million users, an existing social graph, and a huge network of open data & content it's increasingly becoming a no-brainer to build new social apps on atproto congrats to the skylight team on the launch 🙌

Welcome to Skylight!! I’m overjoyed to have you here!!! 🥰 @skylight.social @reedharmeyer.bsky.social #skylightsocial #tiktokrefugees #tiktokban

Huge congrats to @buildwithtori.com and @reedharmeyer.bsky.social

Cory Booker now in hour 17

Maybe folks are better at probabilities on Bluesky!

Today, I sit down with Marten Mickos, a serial tech CEO who has been at the forefront of some of the most transformative moments in open-source technology.

In this episode of The Eric Ries Show, I'm joined by Celine Halioua, founder and CEO of Loyal, a groundbreaking biotech startup developing drugs to extend dogs healthspan and lifespan.

This is tragic. Anyone who was familiar with 18F knows those were some of the real heroes of government, who helped make government tech/digital services better for the public. They were doing real work that DOGE pretends to do, but is too ignorant to know how to do.

In today’s episode of The Eric Ries Show, I’m joined by Gagan Biyani, Co-Founder and CEO of Maven, a platform that’s redefining online education with cohort-based courses. Before Maven, Gagan co-founded Udemy, now one of the largest online education marketplaces, and Sprig, a meal delivery startup.

This episode of the Indie VC podcast is really good, especially the part where @ericries.bsky.social talks about the compromises many startup founders make along the way (to success) that eventually take a toll on them.

In today’s episode of The Eric Ries Show, I am joined by Luis von Ahn, CEO and co-founder of @duolingoverde.bsky.social. With Duolingo, his mission was simple: make language learning accessible to everyone—not to build a for-profit company.

Editing this conversation with @ericries.bsky.social this week felt like a balm. youtu.be/MiaQOSxW_3I?...

In this episode of The Eric Ries Show, I sit down with @craignewmark.bsky.social, the founder of Craigslist—one of the internet’s most influential platforms. Despite its massive impact, Craigslist has remained intentionally minimalist, resisting the hyper-monetization strategies common in tech.

Announcing Builder Blueprints: a free, first-of-its-kind set of legal docs and tools that founders can use to raise the standard for users and companies alike. New standard docs for a new status quo: www.builder-blueprints.com (1/3)

In this episode of The Eric Ries Show, I’m joined by Amir Nathoo, Co-Founder and CEO of Outschool, an education platform offering live online classes for K-12 learners.

Here’s how the iOS beta testing works: 👇🏽Use this link to download both TestFlight and Skylight👇🏽 testflight.apple.com/join/s5RmNCGc 👇🏽Use this link to give us feedback on the app👇🏽 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Only open for 1000 sign ups! Will be adding more soon!

In this episode of The Eric Ries Show, I’m joined by Emil Eifrem, Co-Founder and CEO of Neo4j, an open-source graph database. Neo4j enables organizations to unlock the business value of connections, influences, and relationships in data.

Really impressed by the increase of activity on Bluesky lately. Followers, replies, posts, everything. Congrats @jay.bsky.team and team

If you want to read a new book coming out but don't want to buy it, a great thing you can do is ask your local library to order it. The more requests they get, the more likely they are to acquire it and then lots of people will get to read it who othewise wouldn't.