664: He Changed How the World Builds Startups. Now He's Warning You About What Comes Next | Eric Ries

The Foundr Podcast with Nathan Chan · May 21, 2026 · 56m

Eric Ries wrote the book that changed how the entire world builds startups. Now he's back with a more urgent argument: the way we're taught to build companies is quietly turning them against everything that made them worth building in the first place. The creator of The Lean Startup has spent years watching mission-driven founders get fired from their own companies, watching the spark that started everything get extinguished by the very success they worked so hard to create—and he's finally written the blueprint to stop it.

In this interview, Eric breaks down the core ideas behind his new…