A founder builds the no-commission rule into his platform — 'the structure has to resist that drift'

Stewart founded Achene, an online course platform. He set a pricing rule that charges for resources that cost the company something rather than for access to features, and built the engineering — zero-egress storage, free transcription — that lets him hold it.

“It's also the practical side of an idea from Eric Ries's Incorruptible: businesses drift from their customers under growth pressure, so the structure has to resist that drift. Efficient architecture gives us room to keep prices fair.” — Pete Stewart on LinkedIn