Eric Ries
Eric Ries is an entrepreneur and author known for the Lean Startup methodology and advocacy for mission-driven corporate governance.
“This idea dates to the 1980s... shareholder primacy has never been subject to any referendum, any legislative action, nothing.”
Source→“If you fast forward 20 years, this intervention caused Novo Nordisk to have for a time a market valuation greater than the GDP of Denmark.”
Source→“When Edwin Land was fired from Polaroid... they never invented another thing ever again after they fired the founder.”
Source→“Credit to Dario and Daniela and the whole team... I remember working with them on their charter and they had to defend this idea for two years because they kept writing it into the term sheets... it took time to figure out what they wanted to do.”
Source→AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.