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

People act like having a start up fail is the worst thing that can happen to you. And like, man, that's not even in the top ten. Like it's b it's bad. I've I've I've done it. It's awful. Okay, it's really bad, but far worse. Is to be in a company that won't die, a zombie undead company that you hate.

But you can't leave. Mm. Have I met people like that. And like We're having a mental health crisis among founders that's like not talked about enough. People have started to talk about like the downside mental health risk. Obviously, the stress of being a founder is hard, but like look what's happening to the people that are so called successes. Like

I when you build a company and you sell it out and it becomes something that you find abhorrent, like Yeah, may maybe get rich, but it's it's not It's not good. And so building a company you hate that that becomes a malign force in the world, you know, that you have to go pretend you weren't involved with or that like you feel complicit in what like that's way, way worse. And I wish more founders would take that more seriously early on. Mm Today my guest is Eric Reese. If you're not familiar with his work, I would be shocked.

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