Hey gang, you may remember me from such books as _The Lean Startup_ and _The Startup Way_. It's been fifteen years since I wrote The Lean Startup, and in that time I've seen some things. In both big companies and tiny startups, NGOs and governments, in almost every industry you can name. I've helped a lot of people create a lot of amazing companies, but I've also seen so many ways this can go wrong. There's a darkness in our industry that we often don't talk about. I kept watching good companies drift away from the missions they were founded on. Not because anyone woke up one day and decided t
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