Six months of salary.
That's what Matt Mullenweg offered every Automattic employee to resign if they didn't believe in the company's direction.
About 9% took the offer and left.
Is it possible to build an incorruptible company in our current system?
On the Aboard Podcast, @ftrain and @richziade sit down with @ericries to discuss his latest book, Incorruptible: Why Good Companies Go Bad... and How Great Companies Stay Great: https://t.co/PjqmMdPTSV
In a @FastCompany essay, Founder of the Long-Term Stock Exchange @ericries argues that many fears about #AI are ultimately fears about institutions, incentives, and systems optimized for the wrong outcomes.
“If we want different outcomes, we cannot just ask what our machines are optimizing for. We have to ask the same question of our organizations.”
https://t.co/gaMzJcl9zZ
What an incredible season of Long Now Talks! We heard from @ninamiolane & @claire_i_webb on the geometry of consciousness, @ericries on incorruptibility, @indy_johar@DarkMatter_Labs on planetary consciousness + many more
A new season starts this September, stay tuned.
What a crazy time to be alive, when some of the most esoteric questions of philosophy are suddenly of such economic import they can and must be debated on CNBC
AI expert and former Anthropic insider Eric Ries @ericries on the biggest question for AI now. Should these new giants and drivers of information and technology - slow down? https://t.co/f95t511zaF
Incorruptible:
— New York Times bestseller
— USA Today bestseller
— Independent Press Top 40 (Lit Hub / ABA)
— Porchlight Business Bestseller + Best New Business Book
— Thinkers50 Best New Management Book of 2026
— Next Big Idea Club May Must-Read
— #1 in 5 Amazon business categories
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AI expert and former Anthropic insider Eric Ries @ericries on the biggest question for AI now. Should these new giants and drivers of information and technology - slow down? https://t.co/f95t511zaF
"An outstanding book that points the way forward to corporate America and to the start up community in particular."
— Steen Thomsen, professor of corporate governance
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@ericries The shift from building a product to building the governance that protects that product is the hardest part of scaling. This sounds like a much-needed framework for that transition.
Success and financial gravity can systematically pull companies away from their founding mission, leading to a focus on shareholder value extraction over creating broader human value. @ericries on why companies need ‘mission guardians’ https://t.co/2OOkPzpg6U
My conversation with @ericries
00:00 – Intro
01:28 – Attending a Company’s Funeral
09:16 – Business Advice That Didn’t Age Well
12:06 – Debunking Entrepreneurship Myths
18:18 – When Success Becomes the Problem
25:06 – Sponsor Break
28:05 – The Foundation of Ethical Capitalism
45:11 – Adapting to Changing Market Forces
50:57 – Sponsor Break
53:08 – Why Founders Still Build the Wrong Way
1:05:32 – Eric’s Advice for First-Time Founders
1:10:54 – Why Trust Is the Foundation of Business
1:17:32 – The Business Lesson He’ll Teach His Children
@tibo_maker The law of gravity, Incorruptible by @ericries , right here: "that's when the pressure kicks in. you start hiring ahead of revenue and chasing growth numbers someone wrote on a whiteboard. you stop building for users and start building for the next round"
Thank you for sharing!