The Eric Ries Show

Eric Ries

Founder, entrepreneur, and best-selling author of The Lean Startup Eric Ries discusses how to build profitable companies for the long-term benefit of society. Ries talks with world-class technologists, thought leaders, executives, and others working to create a new ecosystem of trustworthy organizations with limitless potential for growth and a deep commitment to purpose. Together, they uncover the tools and methods to ensure the next generation of companies are designed to maximize human flourishing for generations.

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The Eric Ries Show

Episodes (44)

Jan 8th A Founder’s Guide to Pivoting Without Killing the Company | Misha Esipov
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The Eric Ries Show

Jan 8, 2026
1¼ hours
58 MB

Misha Esipov is the co-founder and CEO of Nova Credit. In this episode of The Eric Ries Show, I talk with Misha about what it takes to build a company inside one of the hardest parts of finance to break into. Misha immigrated to the United States from the Soviet Union as a child and watched his parents rebuild their lives from scratch. Years later, after a conventional path through math, finance, and business school, that experience resurfaced as a question that wouldn’t let go. Why do capable people lose access to credit simply because they cr...

The Eric Ries Show

A Founder’s Guide to Pivoting Without Killing the Company | Misha Esipov

Eric Ries

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