Eric Ries

Over the last two decades, Eric Ries's ideas about continuous innovation, long-term thinking, and market reform have reshaped company building and management practices. In recent years he has also focused on rethinking R & D and reorienting governance to protect mission and purpose, particularly in the field of AI. Eric is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Lean Startup; The Startup Way; and Incorruptible. As a founder and co-founder, he has put his own ideas into practice with The Long-Term Stock Exchange (LTSE); Answer.AI, an AI R&D lab; the Lean Startup Co, which teaches and supports the implementation of Lean Startup methodology; Virgil, a legal services startup; and IMVU, where the ideas that became the Lean Startup method were forged. On his podcast, The Eric Ries Show, he talks to guests including world-class technologists, thought leaders, executives, and others working to build profitable companies for the long-term benefit of society. Eric has served as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Harvard Business School and IDEO. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and three children.