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

Published: Dec. 30, 2019, 5:11 a.m.

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Season 5, Episode 10: The Lean Startup and the Long-Term Stock Exchange (with Eric Ries)\\xa0

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\\u2019s 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\\u2019s startup ecosystem \\u2014 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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