Eric Ries on why good companies rot: it's not corruption, it's 'financial gravity' (news.ycombinator.com)
Ries argues founders obsess over strategy and org charts while ignoring the deeper layer — structure, governance, boards, the relationship with investors. That's where missions die.
The AMA's funniest moment was self-inflicted: he linked a site he'd had Claude Code build to 'summarize' his book tour — and readers pointed out it had built a marketing page with no summaries in it.
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