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.
You can dip your toes with a podcast interview if you prefer. There are plenty.
@ericries is the real deal. A loose friend, and the first person to ever interview me for a job back when I was a very young man trying to get into bay area tech from the east coast. He has made a habit of identifying the root problem behind seemingly intractable issues and then doing what he can to fix them. Even over long years and long odds.
Reading a great new book by @ericries https://t.co/8qofBFQgXO which gets to the heart of what I call digging your own grave. It’s inexplicable and yet I’ve seen it happen over and over again. I’m grateful he wrote it. And there is some hope that it’s possible to create some rare, incorruptible companies.
We're becoming a Public Benefit Company. So I asked @ericries, who advised Anthropic on the same structure, what to encode first.
He didn't reach for a rule. He reached for purpose: "Why do you exist?"
My Tech Department of One conversation with him.
Why do companies lose their soul as they grow?
@ericries creator of the Lean Startup method, founder of The Long-Term Stock Exchange, and author of Incorruptible: Why Good Companies Go Bad…and How Great Companies Stay Great, explains the hidden pressures behind mission drift.
Full episode out now.
This Fri 26 June 2026, LIVE, 1 pm ET / 10 am PT
Can You Build an Incorruptible AI Company?
Join #CXOTalk guest @EricRies, author, “Incorruptible”
https://t.co/Pa2ouDAopH
What are challenges that startups face that makes them “corruptible”?
#Leadership#Incorruptible#Ethics
A @sterlingroadvc outing to see @ericries speak about his new book: Incorruptible. He gave some great examples of governance as a competitive advantage like: Anthropic, NovoNordisk, Costco.
Then a ride home on the Cable Car. SF is truly a special place.
"This book floored me, again and again, with how well it spoke to the purpose-driven founder's dilemma."
— Kathryn Minshew, founder of The Muse
https://t.co/AmF1qUhNzA
Tonight. In conversation with Scott Cook at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco — 6 PM. My last Bay Area event for Incorruptible.
https://t.co/NbkdQfGxNY
Tomorrow. My last Bay Area event for Incorruptible — in conversation with Scott Cook at the Commonwealth Club, SF. 6:00 PM.
This is going to be an amazing conversation.
https://t.co/NbkdQfGxNY
To protect against the corruption of extractive capitalism, read @ericries’ Incorruptible.
‘Chapter 9: Constitutional Governance’ offers a clear but thorough ‘how to’ for exactly this.
(Ignore the coffee stains)