Why success destroys the companies we love, with Eric Ries

What if the way we think about business value, trust, and capitalism itself is fundamentally broken? Eric Ries’ The Lean Startup changed how a generation of entrepreneurs build companies. Now, Ries takes aim at some of the most sacred business assumptions today in his new book, Incorruptible. Ries joins Rapid Response to share what he witnessed firsthand in the clash between Anthropic and the US government, and why he believes the current system is failing the very people it's supposed to serve. He also brings in-the-trenches stories from Cloudflare, Novo Nordisk, and Whole Foods to make the case that courage, not capital, may be the most undervalued asset in business right now. Visit the Rapid Response website here: See Privacy Policy at and California Privacy Notice at .

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Why success destroys the companies we love, with Eric Ries is an episode from Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman by WaitWhat.

This episode is 00:48:23 long.

This episode was published on May 26, 2026.

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