Raj Singh — 'How do you keep a company good? Not good at the numbers. Good in the way you meant it on day one.'

Raj Singh — Co-Founder/CEO of Purpose.app (AI mentor built with Mark Manson) and previously-exited AI founder — gets his copy of Incorruptible signed by Eric and posts a substantive endorsement applying the framework to an AI product 'people open at their lowest moments.' 20 likes.

“Most companies don't get killed by competitors. They get corrupted. Slowly. One reasonable decision at a time. They become the thing they once swore they'd never be. This week Eric Ries signed my copy of his new book. It's called Incorruptible, Why good companies go bad, and how great ones stay great. It left me with a question I can't put down. How do you keep a company good? Not good at the numbers. Good in the way you meant it on day one. For us, this isn't theory. We're building an AI mentor. People open it at their lowest moments, when they're trying to change their life. It's about as personal as software gets. If a product like ours drifts, if it starts serving the metric instead of the human, the cost doesn't land on the shareholders. It lands on the person who trusted it with their inner life. Alignment is the whole job. The time to protect what we stand for is now. While we're small. Before the pressure multiplies. Almost no founders do that early enough, which is exactly why so few companies stay great.” — Raj Singh on LinkedIn