Why good companies go bad and how great companies stay great
Instant NY Times bestseller from Eric Ries, creator of The Lean Startup. Incorruptible reveals the structural forces ("financial gravity") that pull great companies away from their founding purpose, and the governance design that lets the best ones resist it. The book offers the blueprint for organizations that can grow, prosper, and endure without losing their soul. π¬ Launch AMA with Eric π Free implementation guide for Product Hunt incorruptible.co/resources/guide-for-ph
Hey Product Hunt π Two weeks ago I published a new bestselling book. While The Lean Startup helps entrepreneurs create valuable organizations, Incorruptible covers why and how to protect them.
I wanted to run a launch here because Product Hunt's audience (founders, operators, people who actually build things) is exactly who the book is for. What's most exciting to me is the emotional response and the early adopters already applying these protections to their companies.
Corruption in companies almost never starts with bad people. It's structural. There's a gravitational pull toward extraction, toward the next quarter, toward "best practices" that quietly hollow you out. Unless you design against it, it wins. The book is about how the best companies (Costco, Patagonia, Novo Nordisk, Cloudflare, Anthropic) build what I call a governance fortress.
For anyone who wants to take the frameworks further, I'm sharing the implementation guide free with Product Hunt folks at www.incorruptible.co/resources/g.... It's the workshop version, in writing.
I'll be in the comments all day. Ask me anything about financial gravity, mission-controlled companies, why I think a lot of startup advice (including some of my own) needs an update for the AI era, or where you're seeing the patterns in companies you know.
Genuinely excited for this discussion. Eric
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βWhy good companies go bad and how great companies stay greatβ
Incorruptible by Eric Ries launched on Product Hunt on June 10th, 2026 and earned 163 upvotes and 27 comments, placing #7 on the daily leaderboard. Instant NY Times bestseller from Eric Ries, creator of The Lean Startup. Incorruptible reveals the structural forces ("financial gravity") that pull great companies away from their founding purpose, and the governance design that lets the best ones resist it. The book offers the blueprint for organizations that can grow, prosper, and endure without losing their soul. π¬ Launch AMA with Eric π Free implementation guide for Product Hunt incorruptible.co/resources/guide-for-ph
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Eric Ries
Hey Product Hunt π
Two weeks ago I published a new bestselling book. While The Lean Startup helps entrepreneurs create valuable organizations, Incorruptible covers why and how to protect them.
I wanted to run a launch here because Product Hunt's audience (founders, operators, people who actually build things) is exactly who the book is for. What's most exciting to me is the emotional response and the early adopters already applying these protections to their companies.
Corruption in companies almost never starts with bad people. It's structural. There's a gravitational pull toward extraction, toward the next quarter, toward "best practices" that quietly hollow you out. Unless you design against it, it wins. The book is about how the best companies (Costco, Patagonia, Novo Nordisk, Cloudflare, Anthropic) build what I call a governance fortress.
For anyone who wants to take the frameworks further, I'm sharing the implementation guide free with Product Hunt folks at www.incorruptible.co/resources/g.... It's the workshop version, in writing.
I'll be in the comments all day. Ask me anything about financial gravity, mission-controlled companies, why I think a lot of startup advice (including some of my own) needs an update for the AI era, or where you're seeing the patterns in companies you know.
Genuinely excited for this discussion.
Eric