Jonas Ridderstrale
Global Management Guru | Thinkers50 Honoree | Bestselling Author, Funky Business | Visiting Professor, Ashridge & IE Business School
Eric Ries
Founder & Creator, The Lean Startup | Founder & Executive Chair, Long-Term Stock Exchange | NYT Bestselling Author of The Lean Startup, The Startup Way & Incorruptible
Speaker Eric Ries authored The Lean Startup, the book that defined how modern teams build under uncertainty and turned MVPs, validated learning, and build-measure-learn into universal practice. As founder of the Long-Term Stock Exchange and author of Incorruptible, he now shapes the governance of mission-driven companies. He gives senior audiences a pragmatic system for innovating fast without breaking what matters most.
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Eric Ries biography
Entrepreneurship speaker Eric Ries is the New York Times bestselling author of The Lean Startup and the creator of the methodology of the same name, now used by founders, Fortune 500 R&D teams, and government innovation labs across more than thirty languages. He is the founder and Executive Chair of the Long-Term Stock Exchange (LTSE), a U.S. national securities exchange built around long-term governance, and a co-founder of Answer.AI, an applied AI research lab. Audiences book speaker Eric Ries to translate two decades of work with founders, CEOs, and institution builders into the language of operating decisions.
The Lean Startup introduced now-standard practices — the minimum viable product, validated learning, and the build-measure-learn loop — and reframed entrepreneurship as a management discipline for any team building under uncertainty. His follow-up, The Startup Way, brought those ideas inside large organizations, and his most recent book, Incorruptible: Why Good Companies Go Bad and How Great Companies Stay Great, argues that corporate failures are usually structural rather than ethical and offers a governance toolkit for keeping mission-driven companies on course.
From Silicon Valley to long-term capital markets
Eric was previously CTO and co-founder of IMVU and has served as Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Harvard Business School, IDEO, and Pivotal. He partnered with GE on the FastWorks program, advised the U.S. federal government on innovation, and has worked with leadership teams at companies ranging from venture-backed startups to global incumbents. His Kickstarter campaign for The Leader’s Guide remains one of the platform’s most successful book campaigns.
His current focus at LTSE is reshaping the rules of public-company life — including a recent SEC petition to modernize quarterly reporting — so that leaders can prioritize durable value creation over short-term signaling.
As a speaker, Eric Ries delivers a clear, pragmatic playbook for innovating inside any organization: how to test bold bets cheaply, how to build governance that holds under pressure, and how to scale a culture of continuous learning without losing what made the company worth scaling.
Eric Ries Speaking Videos
Eric Ries - Building a Startup for Long Term Success
Eric Ries - The Lean Startup
Eric Ries Keynote Topics
Speaker Eric Ries walks audiences through the system that has reshaped how teams build new products and businesses: validated learning, minimum viable products, the build-measure-learn loop, and the discipline of running experiments instead of guessing. He shows how to apply these principles inside startups, Fortune 500 R&D groups, and government innovation labs alike.
Eric makes the case that continuous innovation is no longer a startup tactic — it is the operating system every modern enterprise needs. Drawing on engagements with GE, Toyota, and the U.S. government, he shows how leaders can hard-wire entrepreneurial management into core operations to grow revenues, change culture, and unlock new categories of value.
Drawing on his work founding the Long-Term Stock Exchange, Eric argues that capital markets, governance structures, and incentive design quietly determine whether a company can play a long game. He gives boards and management teams a concrete framework for designing decision rights, ownership structures, and reporting cadences that protect long-term value creation.
Most companies that lose their way do so for structural reasons — not ethical ones. In this keynote, Eric draws on his book Incorruptible to show how charters, ownership, incentives, and accountability mechanisms shape behavior at scale, and how founders, CEOs, and boards can build governance that keeps the mission intact through growth, succession, and crisis.
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FAQs on Booking Eric Ries
Why Eric Ries?
Eric Ries didn't just describe how modern companies are built — he wrote the playbook. The Lean Startup turned MVPs, validated learning, and build-measure-learn into universal practice across startups, Fortune 500s, and government. Today he extends that work into governance and capital markets through the Long-Term Stock Exchange and his book Incorruptible. On stage, he is precise, candid, and operator-minded, translating frameworks into decisions a CEO can make Monday morning. Book Eric Ries through Aurum Speakers Bureau to bring one of the defining business thinkers of our era to your stage.
What is The Lean Startup?
The Lean Startup is the methodology Eric Ries introduced in his 2011 book of the same name. It treats a startup — or any team building under uncertainty — as a series of experiments designed to accelerate learning rather than execution. Core practices include the minimum viable product, validated learning, innovation accounting, and the build-measure-learn feedback loop. The approach has been adopted by founders, large corporations, and public-sector innovators worldwide.
What is the Long-Term Stock Exchange?
The Long-Term Stock Exchange (LTSE) is a U.S. national securities exchange founded by Eric Ries and approved by the SEC. It was designed for companies and investors who want to operate on long-term horizons, with listing standards focused on stakeholder commitments, multi-year planning, and durable governance. LTSE has become a focal point in the broader debate over short-termism in public markets.
What audiences does Eric Ries speak to?
Eric speaks to founders and CEOs, public-company boards, corporate innovation and R&D leaders, venture and growth investors, and government innovation teams. His sessions work especially well at leadership offsites, product launches, board education days, and innovation summits. Contact Aurum Speakers Bureau to plan a keynote calibrated to your audience and outcomes.
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