Episodes
How to Scale Trust Into a Billion Dollar Business | Ritu Narayan (Zum)
For this episode of The Eric Ries Show, I sat down with Ritu Narayan, founder and CEO of Zum, which has had incredible success in the field of student transportation. The company began as a private service to tackle a problem...
Lessons From Co-Founding Facebook, And Now Asana | Dustin Moskovitz
Welcome to The Eric Ries Show. I sat down with Dustin Moskovitz, founder of not one but two iconic companies: Facebook and the collaborative work platform Asana. Needless to say, he’s engaged in the most intense form of entre...
How to Disrupt an Industry: Lessons from James Reinhart (ThredUp)
In this episode of The Eric Ries Show, I talk with James Reinhart, founder of the second-hand resale platform ThredUp. A history major in college, James started his career as a teacher. That might not seem like it has much to...
His First Company Went Public For $3.5 Billion, Now He’s Reversing Type 2 Diabetes For 100 Million | Sami Inkinen (Trulia, Virta Health)
In this first episode of The Eric Ries Show, I sit down with serial entrepreneur and intrepid explorer, Sami Inkinen. Sami has co-founded two companies: Trulia and Virta Health. After selling Trulia to Zillow for $3.5 billion...
Welcome To The Eric Ries Show
For too long, company builders have been told that purpose and profit are at odds -- that trading one for the other is inevitable. A burgeoning group of founders is proving that wrong, creating organizations whose commitment ...