Y Combinator adds Incorruptible to its S26 batch reading list — surfaced by founder Erin McGurk

Erin Meryl McGurk — founder of Egoist Machines (Y Combinator Summer 2026 batch) — posts that YC gave her cohort a curated reading list, and one of the books is Incorruptible. 52-like signal that the world's most influential accelerator is now recommending the book to its current class of founders.

“Y Combinator gave us a few books to read One of them was Incorruptible by Eric Ries. This is one of my favourite quotes from that book, that I think is very well generalisable beyond simply the startup (Though good lessons for Egoist Machines, Inc. (YC S26) contained in there too!)” — Erin Meryl McGurk on LinkedIn