Show Notes
Eric Ries's The Lean Startup method is undeniably one of the most influential writings published on entrepreneurship in the last decade. It gave a whole generation of founders a new way to build - and made 'pivot' a household word.
Now he's tackling an even harder subject: why do so many great companies eventually betray everything they stood for? And what can founders do to stop it?
In his new book Incorruptible, Ries argues that governance is the most powerful and most underappreciated force in business. In this conversation with Carlos, they get into why shareholder primacy destroys brands, why the tools to resist that pressure already exist, and why most founders give away the thing that matters most.
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Jeff Stewart, founder of GPO Fund and author of Global IPO, joins Carlos to unpack why the best founders plan their exit before they incorporate, and why the best founders shouldn't wait to go public.
Metaview started in 2018 on a simple bet: hiring decisions are some of the most consequential calls a company makes, yet no one captures the data behind them. Cofounder Shahriar joins Carlos to talk through how Metaview's early bet was supercharged by the arrival of LLMs, their "Public Unless Private" culture borrowed from Palantir and Uber, and Fillmore, Metaview's new autonomous hiring coworker.
Your AI agent just deleted a database. Who gets fired?
We knew Pari Singh was special when he walked into Seedcamp at 21 and told us that he could design rockets faster than anyone in the world.
James Kuht MBE has spent 15 years working on what happens when powerful technology meets the messiness of real organisations. He's learned that developing the technology is rarely the hard part - the hard part is getting people to use it in a way that makes strategic sense for the organisation.