My biggest takeaways from @EricRies: 1. There’s a force that pulls organizations toward mediocrity and corruption—“the force no one controls but everyone obeys.” It’s not greed or aging—it’s “financial gravity”: structural pressure from governance. Eric describes how a friend could literally taste when a restaurant had been taken over by private equity. The same pattern erodes brands, removes founders, and turns products into extractive machines. 2. Only 20% of venture-backed founders are…