What I Learned About 37 Signals

Rework is coming back for season 2 this September! In the meantime here's a little bonus to tide you over. Back in the late 90s and early 2000s, during the dot com bubble, Basecamp cofounders, Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson both had run-ins with venture-backed tech startups. These experiences would form many of the ideas later published in Rework.

Show Notes

• 03:27 - Leo Burnett
• 03:54 - Daily Rush
• 04:03 - 37signals
• 04:15 - Quokka (the animal)
• 04:54 - The Around Alone
• 11:38 - Basecamp
• 18:18 - Ernest Kim
• 18:18 - Carlos Segura
• 19:12 - Copenhagen Business School
• 19:40 - Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors by Michael Porter
• 21:34 - Bitcoin
• 21:34 - Ethereum
• 21:34 - NFT
• 22:34 - Skype
• 22:35 - Zendesk
• 22:39 - Ruby on Rails
• 24:24 - Ammon Haggerty
• 24:40 - Josh Ulm
• 24:59 - John Johnson
• 25:36 - An Oral History of Quokka, The Company That (Almost) Shook Up Sports - Sportico