Eric Ries is an entrepreneur and author who founded the Long-Term Stock Exchange and wrote The Lean Startup. Eric Ries's Twitter Score is 193 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of October 2026, ranking #2,469 (top 1%) among 493,668 tracked accounts.
Eric Ries co-founded IMVU, serving as its Co-Founder and CTO, and later founded the Long-Term Stock Exchange (LTSE), a U.S. securities exchange focused on long-term growth that received SEC approval and launched on September 9, 2020. LTSE raised $50 million in a Series B round led by Founders Fund, with Andreessen Horowitz, Obvious Ventures, and Initialized Capital participating. Eric Ries serves as Founder and Executive Chairman of LTSE.
Eric Ries is the author of The Lean Startup and The Startup Way, two widely read books on entrepreneurship and business methodology, and hosts The Eric Ries Show. His most recent book is Incorruptible. Eric Ries previously served as a Venture Advisor to Kleiner Perkins. Eric Ries's account has 301,290 followers as of October 2026 and 35,181 posts. Eric Ries has been mentioned by 633 accounts a total of 2,666 times.
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