IPN Startup Community: AMA w/ Eric Ries

​Join the IPN Startup Community for a live AMA with Eric Ries — founder, New York Times bestselling author, and creator of the Lean Startup method — hosted by IPN Startup Community Admin Naveed Lalani.

​This is an open, wide-ranging conversation on building companies that last — from the earliest stages through scale.

​Eric Ries is the mind behind the MVP, the pivot, and build-measure-learn — concepts that changed how a generation of founders build. Since then, he's kept building: founding the Long-Term Stock Exchange (LTSE), co-founding the AI R&D lab Answer.AI with LLM inventor Jeremy Howard, and launching multiple companies from zero.

​His forthcoming book Incorruptible tackles something most founders don't think about until it's too late: how the very success you're chasing can quietly pull your company away from the mission you started with — and what you can do about it now, while you're still early.

​Topics include:

• ​How to architect mission into your company from day one — not as branding, but as a real operating system

• ​The structural mistakes early-stage founders make that compound as they scale

• ​What Eric calls "financial gravity" — and why it starts pulling earlier than you think

• ​Lean Startup in 2026: what AI changes, what it doesn't

• ​Fundraising, governance, and board dynamics — the stuff your lawyer won't tell you

• ​How companies like Novo Nordisk, Costco, and Patagonia stayed true and still won

​This AMA is designed for founders, operators, aspiring entrepreneurs, and investors looking for real, actionable insight from someone whose ideas have shaped modern company building.