A book in conversation
The Lean Startup
Eric Ries
Conversations with the author
689: Eric Ries - The Costco Hot Dog, Why Good Companies Go Bad, Financial Gravity, Building Incorruptible Organizations, and The Lean Startup's Unfinished Business
The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk · 2026-05-24
Host Ryan Hawk introduces Eric Ries as the author of The Lean Startup and calls it one of the most influential business books of the past 25 years. Ries then notes that the book's final chapter already raised the idea of building a long-term stock exchange and argued for ecosystem-level reform of business education and capital markets — ideas he later pursued by founding the Long-Term Stock Exchange.
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