Mike Walsh (Straight Path IT Solutions) — 'the more people in the payout line, the harder it is to maintain the ideal'

Walsh owns Straight Path IT Solutions, a small privately held firm he says puts values first. He listened to Incorruptible and added a caveat from where he sits: each additional layer of shareholders and investors standing between a company and its payouts makes the standard Ries sets more expensive to hold. He credits the book with laying out a route for large companies anyway.

“Just got done listening to Incorruptible by Eric Ries … at Straight Path IT Solutions - We're a very small privately held business and put values first in all we do. It's a lot harder the bigger you are, though. And from what I observe the more people in the payout line (be it shareholders or investors and investors of investors), the harder it is to maintain the ideal he gets at. He absolutely shares a roadmap to get there for the big companies.” — Mike Walsh on LinkedIn