Juho Makkonen, Sharetribe: 'The second book by Eric Ries is way more important'

Sharetribe co-founder Juho Makkonen — who transitioned his marketplace company to steward-ownership — frames Incorruptible as the structural sequel that names what The Lean Startup left out: how to keep a company from corrupting itself once it starts to win. 80+ likes inside the first day.

“The Lean Startup is the most important startup book in history. The second book by Eric Ries is way more important. It's about why so many companies that started with a social mission end up in a place where their impact to the world is net negative. And it's about how to structure companies in a way that prevents that from happening, in a permanent way. Essentially, it's a book about steward-ownership. Most of the success stories cited in the book – Novo Nordisk, Zeiss, Anthropic – have adopted corporate structures that separate money and power and ensure that the decision-makers of the organizations can focus of the long term benefit the organization creates in society, without having to worry about activist investors complaining about last quarter's results, or without having the temptation to prioritize short-term profits to inflate their personal wealth. In case you've been wondering why Sharetribe chose to transition to steward-ownership: this is why. If there's a way to transform capitalism into something that is truly a force of regeneration, not a force of extraction, this is it.” — Juho Makkonen on LinkedIn