Eric Ries is an angel investor and the Founder & CEO of the Long-Term Stock Exchange (LTSE). See portfolio and contact routes.
Eric Ries is an angel investor and the Founder & CEO of the Long-Term Stock Exchange (LTSE), a platform he launched to promote long-term corporate thinking after co-founding IMVU and serving as its CTO. He invests primarily at the earliest stages in mission-driven founders across sectors including education, fintech, and AI, with a geographic focus on startups he can engage with personally. His typical check size is $10,000 or less, and he prefers to follow rather than lead, often working with companies as an advisor or informal friend before investing. Notable portfolio companies include IMVU, which he co-founded, and LTSE, the exchange he established to reform public market incentives. Ries is the author of *The Lean Startup* and *The Startup Way*, books that codified the lean startup methodology and reshaped entrepreneurial management practices globally. His distinctive point of view centers on rejecting Wall Street’s short-term focus by advocating for “tenured voting” rights and prohibiting quarterly earnings forecasts for listed companies. Through his public writing and podcast, *The Eric Ries Show*, he continues to champion long-termism a
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