Mom Bomb

Looks like Mom Bomb is going to Bentonville 🎉

Is this a sign from the universe?

I don’t know what else to call it. If I listed out everything converging in my world right now, you wouldn’t believe me — unless you’ve been following my Substack for the last eight years. Then you just might.

It feels like eight years of work collapsed into the last two weeks.

This weekend, I cracked open Incorruptible by Eric Ries.

For eight years I’ve been building a company around one stubborn conviction: that work can be better. That short-termism isn’t actually what’s best for anyone. That a business can be a system of care — built to serve every stakeholder, not just its shareholders.

So I built it. Building an ecosystem of multiple organizations — bootstrapped, no map, no permission — has been transformative. Honestly, I’m not the same person I started out as.

And then I read Eric’s book.

It mirrors what I built right down to the twin nonprofit and the ecosystem. I don’t even need to walk you through the details. The spine is identical.

I’m moving through it so fast I already know I’ll have to go back and wrestle with it line by line.

And Eric is the rare kind of forward-thinker who didn’t just diagnose the problem — he built the Long-Term Stock Exchange to fix it. When the time is right, that may be exactly where a company like ours belongs.

So here’s my question for everyone reading this:

Who else is walking this road with me?

Please — identify yourselves.

Eric Ries — thank you 💕🙏🏻