Eric Ries

Bestselling author and entrepreneur

San Francisco, USA

About Eric

Eric Ries is a renowned author and entrepreneur who has written several bestselling books on lean startup and entrepreneurship. He is a frequent speaker at industry events and has a strong following in the startup community.

Associated Podcasts

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Guest

Innovate+Upgrade

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Moonshots Podcast: Superstar mindsets and success habits

Host

The Eric Ries Show

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Connect

Recent Appearances

A Founder’s Guide to Pivoting Without Killing the Company | Misha Esipov

The Eric Ries Show•Jan 8, 2026•1:03:10•host

Escaping the Zero-Sum Economy: A New Model for Local Prosperity | Zita Cobb

The Eric Ries Show•Dec 11, 2025•1:24:23•host

Eric Ries

About Eric

Associated Podcasts

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Innovate+Upgrade

Moonshots Podcast: Superstar mindsets and success habits

The Eric Ries Show

Connect

Recent Appearances

A Founder’s Guide to Pivoting Without Killing the Company | Misha Esipov

Escaping the Zero-Sum Economy: A New Model for Local Prosperity | Zita Cobb

The Entrepreneur’s Bookshelf

Key Topics

The Ultimate Guide for Creating Products People Trust | Seth Goldman (Honest Tea)

How the Former U.S. CTO Built a $3B Healthcare Company Powered by Love | Todd Park

The G.O.A.T.s of Kindness on Bootstrapping a Purpose-Driven Company | Dr. Brent Ridge & Josh Kilmer-Purcell

From Fired CEO to Billion-Dollar Exit: How Lukas Biewald Turned Failure into the Future of AI

How to move beyond bureaucracy, not waste talent, and innovate faster | Michele Zanini & Gary Hamel

From Blacksmith to Billionaire: The Making of Patagonia’s Ethos

“AI Will Break the Internet” — Cloudflare CEO’s Big Prediction

Inside Vercel: The $3B giant that’s changed coding forever

How GitLab scaled to 30M users with transparency, remote work, and the ultimate employee handbook | Sid Sijbrandij

Turning down $200 million and the big bets that led to powering 40% of the internet

The playbook for fixing toxic culture, pointless friction, and broken systems | Bob Sutton (Stanford, NYT bestselling author)

The pitch that changed air travel forever: $3B in preorders, Richard Branson’s backing, and the return of supersonic flight | Blake Scholl (Boom Supersonic)

The Hidden Costs of Pay Inequality, And How Leading Companies are Solving It | Maria Colacurcio (Syndio)

Lessons on co-founding Twitter, Medium and Blogger with Ev Williams

The playbook for building a business to $1M/month with 3 employees, hiring great leaders, and rejecting Silicon Valley’s rules | Jess Mah (Rahway)

The Hired CEO with Founder Mode | Marten Mickos (MySQL, HackerOne)

How To Raise $125M Pre-Revenue and Why Harder Can Be Easier | Celine Halioua (Loyal)

Inside UiPath’s $1.5B ARR Journey – Bootstrapping the company, hiring challenges, and the billion-dollar pivot (Daniel Dines)