Candice M. Macias — 'Eric has studied corporate corruption so deeply, he can taste the shift in the food'

Candice M. Macias — VP Operations scaling CPG beauty and wellness brands — attends Eric's Blackbird House Culver City breakfast and posts a multi-paragraph LinkedIn reflection applying 'financial gravity' to the beauty industry's slow mission-drift through formula changes and CEO transitions.

“Eric has studied corporate corruption so deeply, he can taste the shift in the food. Where I've seen this is beauty. A skincare formula that quietly changed. A leadership transition where the new CEO knew the category but not the conviction. The moment a brand that stood for something becomes alphabet soup — still walking, soul already gone. Every single time, the mission is the first thing that bends. That's financial gravity. His answer: structure. Not intention. Not culture decks. Not a great founder. Structure that outlives all of them. Governance that guards the mission. Investors are already seeking it — PBC (Public Benefit Corporation). Because success is not a person.” — Candice M. Macias on LinkedIn