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Success Story with Scott D. Clary

Eric Ries - Author of The Lean Startup (5M+ Copies Sold) | The Man Who Wrote The Lean Startup Says t

Success Story with Scott D. Clary

Success Story Media

Business, Education, How To, Self-improvement

4.6326 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2026

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

➡️ Join 321,000 people who read my free weekly newsletter: https://newsletter.scottdclary.com ➡️ Like The Podcast? Leave A Rating: https://ratethispodcast.com/successstory Eric Ries is an entrepreneur, author, and business visionary best known for writing The Lean Startup, a groundbreaking framework that has sold over five million copies and fundamentally transformed how startups and enterprises build products and manage innovation. Drawing from his own experiences as a Silicon Valley founder, Ries introduced the concept of the "minimum viable product" and iterative, customer-driven development, principles now embraced by companies and business schools worldwide. His latest book, Incorruptible: Why Good Companies Go Bad… and How Great Companies Stay Great, tackles one of the most pressing questions in modern business: what causes thriving organizations to lose their way, and what separates the rare few that manage to sustain greatness over time. Through his work, Ries continues to challenge entrepreneurs, investors, and policymakers to rethink the fundamental structures driving, and too often corrupting the world of business. ➡️ Show Links https://www.instagram.com/ericriesactual/ https://x.com/ericries  https://www.linkedin.com/in/eries/  ➡️ Books https://www.amazon.com/Incorruptible-Good-Companies-Great-Stay/dp/B0FWZZBPZB https://www.amazon.com/Lean-Startup-Entrepreneurs-Continuous-Innovation/dp/0307887898  ➡️ Podcast Sponsors Hubspot - https://hubspot.com/   Huel - https://huel.com/scott (Code: scott) iDigress Podcast - https://www.idigress.fm   Riverside – https://creators.riverside.com/scottclary  Odoo – https://www.odoo.com  NetSuite - https://netsuite.com/scottclary/  Indeed - https://indeed.com/clary Framer - https://framer.com/design (Code: SuccessStory) LinkedIn Ads - https://linkedin.com/scottclary  Priori - https://priori.life/  Mars Men - https://mengotomars.com/  Upwork - https://upwork.com/  Xero - https://www.xero.com  Dell - dell.com/dell-pro  AutoPilot - https://www.joinautopilot.com/landing  Cohesity - https://www.cohesity.com/datacloud  Amp - https://amp.ai  ➡️ Talking Points 00:00 – Intro 01:28 – Attending a Company’s Funeral 09:16 – Business Advice That Didn’t Age Well 12:06 – Debunking Entrepreneurship Myths 18:18 – When Success Becomes the Problem 25:06 – Sponsor Break 28:05 – The Foundation of Ethical Capitalism 45:11 – Adapting to Changing Market Forces 50:57 – Sponsor Break 53:08 – Why Founders Still Build the Wrong Way 1:05:32 – Eric’s Advice for First-Time Founders 1:10:54 – Why Trust Is the Foundation of Business 1:17:32 – The Business Lesson He’ll Teach His Children

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:06.3

breaches, outages, and the old way of protecting your data, like slow backups, complicated

0:11.6

tools, recovery that takes days. It just doesn't cut it anymore. That's why Cohesity Data Cloud exists.

0:18.1

It's one AI-powered platform that protects your data. It spots threats early,

0:23.1

and it gets you back up and running in hours instead of days. So if you are trying to build

0:28.0

resilience for your company across AI and cloud and identity, head over to cohesity.com

0:34.8

slash data cloud. Cohesity, resilience everywhere. HubSpot is a success story

0:40.1

partner. Now, think about listening to this podcast right now. You are probably multitasking.

0:44.1

You are probably catching maybe 70 to 80% of what I'm saying. Now, flip that and imagine catching

0:49.7

only 20%. It's not a good use of your time. That'd be insane, right? But this is the reality for most businesses. Most businesses only use 20%. It's not a good use of your time. That'd be insane, right? But this is the reality for most

0:55.9

businesses. Most businesses only use 20% of their data. That's like reading a book with 80% of the

1:02.7

pages torn out. You are making decisions with a fraction of the picture. All the important details

1:08.6

that get buried in the call logs and the emails and the transcripts and the chat messages and it's just floating around doing nothing for you unless you use HubSpot.

1:17.1

Their customer platform brings all that unstructured data together and turns it into insights that actually help you grow your business.

1:24.0

Because when you know more, you grow more.

1:26.1

And when you're running a business on 100% of your data instead of 20, the decisions get a lot easier. Visit HubSpot.com to get the full picture today. People say, well, if you're successful, you'll be able to define success on your own terms. You'll be in control. You'll have leverage. But how much more success is you're supposed to have? What I've seen over and over again is people keep losing control of their organization to become something that they did not intend.

1:48.6

What if everything you've been taught about building a business is slowing you down? Eric Reese changed

1:54.6

the way startups are built by challenging the idea that you need everything figured out before you start.

2:00.1

We've been taught something very specific

2:01.7

about how markets work, what leadership is about. Founders who create a lot of value should have the

2:06.1

most freedom. It's not true that if you have success, you'll have the power to do what you want.

2:10.6

For these kind of companies, their very success is the thing that makes them an attractive target.

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