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27 May 2026

Newsletter – May 27, 2026

Berkeley SkyDeck’s recent fireside chat and book signing with New York Times best-selling author Eric Ries (The Lean Startup) was standing room-only. Drawing on two decades of experience working alongside top founders and investors, Ries offered a candid look at building enduring companies, with a core message that resonated deeply: trust is a company’s primary asset. He emphasized that top talent, early customers, and investors are all drawn to an organization by trust. If that foundation is lost, operational success cannot salvage it.
Ries also discussed his new book, Incorruptible: Why Good Companies Go Bad…and How Great Companies Stay Great, which argues that corporate decay is largely a structural failure rather than a purely moral one, meaning it can be systematically designed against from the start. 
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