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各位朋友，你们可能还记得我写的《精益创业》和《创业维艰》这两本书。自从我写了《精益创业》已经过去了十五年，在这段时间里，我看到了很多事情。无论是在大公司还是初创企业，在非政府组织还是政府机构，几乎所有你能想到的行业里。我帮助了很多人创建了许多了不起的公司，但我也看到了太多事情会出错。我们的行业中存在着一种我们常常避而不谈的黑暗面。我一直看到优秀的公司偏离了它们创立的初衷。不是因为有人某天醒来决定变坏，而是因为它们赖以生存的结构慢慢将它们推向了那个方向。我称这种拉力为“财务引力”。我们都曾有过这样的经历：看着一家我们喜爱或钦佩的公司被扭曲、损坏到面目全非；直到它只剩下空壳，甚至更糟。我想理解为什么会这样。我想知道我们所有人能做些什么来阻止这种情况发生。我的新书《不腐蚀》（Incorruptible）试图解释塑造组织的无形力量，以及少数几家公司（如好市多、巴塔哥尼亚和诺和诺德）是如何成功地构建自身以抵抗这种引力，并在此基础上蓬勃发展数十年甚至数百年。在此期间，我创立了长期股票交易所（Long-Term Stock Exchange），与杰里米·霍华德（Jeremy Howard）共同创办了名为Answer.AI的人工智能研发实验室，并协助多家知名公司（是的，包括Anthropic）完善了公司治理。我不会假装自己已经完全明白了这一切，但我可能花了比健康所允许的更多的时间来研究“为什么好公司会变坏”这个问题。有什么都可以问我！

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Hey gang, you may remember me from such books as _The Lean Startup_ and _The Startup Way_.It's been fifteen years since I wrote The Lean Startup, and in that time I've seen some things. In both big companies and tiny startups, NGOs and governments, in almost every industry you can name.I've helped a lot of people create a lot of amazing companies, but I've also seen so many ways this can go wrong. There's a darkness in our industry that we often don't talk about.I kept watching good companies drift away from the missions they were founded on. Not because anyone woke up one day and decided to be evil, but because the structure they were built on slowly pulled them there. I call that pull "financial gravity."We've all experienced watching a company we love or admire be warped and broken beyond recognition; until it's a husk of its former self, or worse. I wanted to understand why. And I wanted to know what all of us can do to stop that from happening.My new book _Incorruptible_ is my attempt to explain the invisible forces that shape organizations, and how a handful of companies (like Costco, Patagonia, and Novo Nordisk) have successfully been structured to resist gravity and thrive for decades -- or even centuries.Along the way, I founded the Long-Term Stock Exchange, co-founded an AI R&D lab called Answer.AI with Jeremy Howard, and helped a number of notable companies with their governance (yes, including Anthropic).I won't pretend I have this all figured out, but I've probably spent more time than is healthy on the "why do good companies go bad" question. Ask me anything!

AMA：我是埃里克·莱斯（《精益创业》作者）和新畅销书《Incorruptible》的作者