Eric Ries

Jul 17, 2024 | podcasts.apple.com | Eric Ries

Yancey Strickler is the co-founder and former CEO of Kickstarter, and the founder of Metalabel, a platform for releasing collective work. He’s also the author of This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World. I’m thrilled to share our recent conversation in this episode. Yancey started out as a music journalist before applying his talents to helping the world share its creative pursuits.

Jul 15, 2024 | carolroth.com | Eric Ries

Inspired by the anniversary of Carol Roth’s instant New York Times bestselling book release of “You Will Own Nothing” (available for purchase here!), we thought we would ask the incredible CarolRoth.com contributor network of business owners, advisors, experts and entrepreneurs to share their top business-related book recommendations for Summer 2024. Their answers are presented below, in no particular order.

Jul 8, 2024 | podcasts.apple.com | Eric Ries

For this episode of The Eric Ries Show, I sat down with Ritu Narayan, founder and CEO of Zum, which has had incredible success in the field of student transportation. The company began as a private service to tackle a problem Ritu was facing herself: how to function as a working parent dealing with erratic pickup and drop-off schedules. Before long, it became clear that there was a far larger opportunity to change pretty much everything about how all kids get to and from school.

Jul 3, 2024 | packetpushers.net | Eric Ries

Service Level Objectives (SLOs) are a set of reliability measurements for customer or user expectations of services; in other words, are people having a good experience with your application or service? Today’s Day Two Cloud explores SLOs, the relevant metrics, and how to measure them. We also talk about how SLOs are a cross-discipline objective (that is, not just one team’s responsibility), the personas that should be involved in the creation, negotiation, adjusting, and reviewing SLOs, and more.

Jun 19, 2024 | podcasts.apple.com | Eric Ries

Welcome to The Eric Ries Show. I sat down with Dustin Moskovitz, founder of not one but two iconic companies: Facebook and the collaborative work platform Asana. Needless to say, he’s engaged in the most intense form of entrepreneurship there is. A huge part of what he’s chosen to do with the hard-earned knowledge it gave him is dedicate himself and Asana to investing in employees’ mental health, communication skills, and more.