Reflections on a movement | Eric Ries (creator of the Lean Startup methodology)

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This is for sure the best yet! Love how Eric can just pull awesome examples out of his back pocket! Definitely re-listening to Lean Startup today!!

Very thoughtful and meaningful content that applies across many sectors. Thank you for this service Lenny!

Great guest! You should get the OG guys on the pod that pioneered similar ideas before Eric: Steve Blank and Geoffrey Moore!

Research alleviates a lot misses but an MVP is the only way to know. That’s where you get the best feedback. Pivot.

Unless I'm building for colleagues on the same floor, building something new for strangers using feedback is something I grok but find very hard to do. It reminds me of investing, how it's so easy (continually buy cheapest SP500 passive fund every month for your whole life), and I yet cannot do it (stock picking).

I've sat and thought deeply about why this is. It's rooted in my psyche and I think it is profound insecurity. It stops me seeking feedback.

I wonder if this is why Americans do well at startups (and broadcasting themselves). It feels to me that Americans, for many reasons, have a little less self-doubt and fewer insecurities. Or perhaps they're more permissive, less judgemental, have looser social norms (see Michele Gelfand's tightness-looseness theory) which make it bit easier to fail.

My point is that I think to build something people want means reading Eric Ries, and then getting counselling for why you're scared of people. This doesn't get talked about and yet I bet it's main the reason the startup graveyard is full.

Oh. My. God! Thank you so much for a long and deep discussion on MVP! This is absolutely needed! So many misconceptions about it!

It’s not minimum that’s fluid, it’s viable that is a modifier of minimum. It’s the minimum that is still viable. And that depends on the user, the job, the context, the hypothesis, etc.

Amazing episode!

By far the best Lenny’s podcast ❤

This was an amazing episode, Lenny! As a new founder, Eric’s advice is so real and relatable even 10 years after the Lean Startup. Thank you for this incredible content!

dr. Russell Ackoff in the 80's already was telling business managers that the goal of any business is not to make money, but to develop and bring value to society. I don't know if Eric even knows, but basically Lean and Agile methodologies are rooted in System Thinking principles, where Russel Ackoff was on of the fathers. Unfortunately, along the way we lost that knowledge and became more interested in slogans and names to give to things. It's natural, that as we get older and we see that society is not evolving, we start to think that we need to change something 😉

Every entrepreneur should watch this interview.

Great to hear considerations around ethics, it truly is a very important topic. Eric is a wonderful speaker and thinker, I'm really glad to have someone like him be a strong voice in the industry. Thanks for the episode, Lenny!

that wasn't a conversation, it was a preachy monolog

Amazing, Cant wait to hear from my favorite author

the difference between title card Eric and video Eric really demonstrates the "10+ years later"

can't wait to hear it. Thank you Lenny!