The Lean Startup and the Long-Term Stock Exchange (with Eric Ries)

Season 5, Episode 10: The Lean Startup and the Long-Term Stock
Exchange (with Eric Ries) 


Acquired closes out Season 5 and 2019 with a radical look into
both the past and future decades of startup company building,
investing and - yes, exiting - in conversation with legendary
Lean Startup author Eric Ries. Nine years on from pioneering the
now-canonical concepts of product-market fit, minimum viable
products, and pivots during the aftermath of the financial
crisis, Eric’s new venture at the Long-Term Stock Exchange
represents an equally ambitious attempt to rewrite the orthodoxy
of how companies and their investors manage liquidity, governance
and alignment around longterm value creation. Like Lean Startup a
decade before it, can LTSE help address some of the endemic
problems in this generation’s startup ecosystem — excessive
capital raising, stay-private-longer, dual-class founder
hegemony, extreme illiquidity and quarterly earnings myopia? Tune
in to find out!


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