The art of the steal: Serial founder Eric Ryan on finding inspiration
Apr 23, 2026 · 34 min
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0:03When I told my mom I was going to do this, she's like, I've never seen you make it better.
0:08Are you really the right person to start a cleaning products business?
0:12Well, that was a fair question from mom, but it turned out that Eric Ryan was exactly the right person to found Method, the cleaning products powerhouse.
0:23Eric scaled the company to incredible heights before selling it, but then he faced a new question.
0:29What to do next?
0:32I felt kind of rudderless.
0:34I was not happy.
0:36And I realized I had lost my identity as an entrepreneur, which I viewed myself since the third grade as somebody I aspired to be.
0:43And the second I decided to start my next company, I like snap out of it.
0:47And I was like, okay, I've got purpose again.
0:50I've got a dream.
0:56This is Masters of Scale.
0:57I'm Jeff Bremen, your host.
0:59This week on the show, Eric Ryan.
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