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Jason Fried

Co-founder of 37signals, a software company known for Basecamp and HEY. Shares insights on business and work.

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783 snips
Mar 20, 2024 • 1h 7min

The Cashflow King: “Here’s How I Do It”, Negotiating w/ Jeff Bezos, Elon’s Cracked Rocket - Jason Fried

Jason Fried discusses his 6-Week Sprint playbook, Jeff Bezos as an investor, and non-recurring revenue. He talks about financial risks, founder letter launch strategies, and unique software products. Exploring effective landing pages, cash flow strategies, and conservative investing.
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Dec 17, 2023 • 1h 50min

Jason Fried challenges your thinking on fundraising, goals, growth, and more

Jason Fried, Co-founder and CEO of 37signals, prioritizes profit and explores bootstrapping. They discuss challenges with raising venture capital, the 'Shape Up' framework for building products, fostering a gut-driven culture, and advice for starting a bootstrapped business.
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May 22, 2024 • 1h 31min

How Writing Helped Jason Fried Build an 8-Figure Business

Basecamp CEO Jason Fried challenges Silicon Valley norms with a focus on honest work and sharing ideas freely. He reveals how writing founder letters for new products builds a fanbase and excitement. Fried discusses specific business-writing techniques, finding flow in creativity, embracing imperfections, and the role of memory in writing.
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Jun 5, 2024 • 60min

25 Years Of Founder WISDOM In 55 Minutes (ft. Jason Fried)

Experienced entrepreneur Jason Fried shares wisdom on personal finances, entrepreneurship, and risk. Topics include injecting risk as a founder, balancing business partnerships, discussing money, navigating luxury with kids, reflecting on luck, and gaining insights from old biographies.
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May 31, 2024 • 1h 8min

Building a Software Company and Saying 'No' to Millions with Jason Fried.

Jason Fried, CEO of 37signals, shares insights on building a successful software company while staying true to values. Topics include Basecamp's expansion, independence in company structure, thoughts on wealth, current interests like drumming and books, favorite products, and rejecting mediocrity in software products.
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Mar 19, 2019 • 58min

#54 Jason Fried: Doing the Enough Thing

Basecamp CEO and co-founder Jason Fried gives us a peek behind the scenes of his company and discusses his philosophy on doing great work, making a positive difference, and learning to breathe in the fast-paced culture of today’s workplace.   Go Premium: Members get early access, ad-free episodes, hand-edited transcripts, searchable transcripts, member-only episodes, and more. Sign up at: https://fs.blog/membership/   Every Sunday our newsletter shares timeless insights and ideas that you can use at work and home. Add it to your inbox: https://fs.blog/newsletter/   Follow Shane on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/ShaneAParrish  
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Aug 2, 2023 • 24min

Rescuing A Project In Progress

Knowing when you're in over your head and recognizing when a project has gone off the rails are crucial aspects of successful project management. But what are the red flags to watch for to prevent project derailment and how can you tell if a project is doomed to fail—even before you start? This week, Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, the co-founders of 37signals, sit down with host Kimberly Rhodes to discuss the challenges of project management and share valuable insights on how to stay focused, recognize red flags early on, and foster creative problem-solving in order to see a project through to completion. Listen in as they reveal the importance of finishing tasks before adding new ones, the pitfalls of multitasking, and the magic of setting clear endpoints. Plus they share Basecamp's tool for facilitating project monitoring without time-consuming meetings or derailing check-ins.Tune in for practical solutions for rescuing a project before it's too late! Check out the full video episode on YouTubeShow Notes: [00:00] - Kimberly opens the show and the topic of how to rescue a project when it’s gone off of the rails.[00:34] - Adding too much without finishing anything causes chaos. Jason shares the story behind his HEY World piece, Rescuing a project in progress, and shares the advice he gave his friend and how that applies to software development too.[02:49] - David shares the reasons behind the “Shape Up” approach at 37signals. [03:44] - You can’t do two things at once, every time you do you lose a little bit…[04:33] - Clearing the decks, wiping the slate clean, AND deciding what you are going to do with 100% of your time and how it helps you avoid shiny object syndrome.[05:20] - Why it's crucial for successful project management to avoid adding new tasks until all the existing unfinished ones are completed. [06:11] - How the magic of deciding when you’re done helps lower the risk of multitasking.[08:53] - In software development how can you tell things are going off the rails before it’s way too late?[09:17] - Jason shares why you need to be tuned into those feelings of being in over your head. [10:43] - David shares the major red flag moment for him that lets him know you’ve already failed before you even get started.  [12:28] - “The longer, the more complicated the project, the more deceivingly specific people believe they can be when the opposite should actually be true.”[13:17] - Why you should never give yourself too much time for a project. [14:13] - The work-in-progress unified system in Denmark for tax assessments of properties that will never be finished (it’s already eight years overdue, and a billion dollars in).[15:53] - The easiest time to stay on track for a project. [16:29] - The other problem with long projects is that you get more time to not fix the problem.[17:17] - The curse of too much time and the sweet spot of creative problem-solving for any endeavor. [18:06] - X is the epicenter of the problem, start there and THEN see how much of Y and Z you get to before your (set in stone) ship deadline. [19:37] - Kimberly shares some people’s approach to rescuing projects and the difference at 37signals. [20:02] - Jason talks about the false sense of security that comes from knowing everything that’s going on.  [21:12] - David shares how “sawing at the wheel” just makes you go slower. [21:57] - Are we done yet? Are we done? How constant interruptions slow projects down. [22:42] - How Basecamp’s
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May 31, 2023 • 28min

Two Person Teams

If you've been following along with the podcast, you've heard the mention of two-person teams and how 37signals makes the most of its software features and productivity with just two people working together—one programmer and one designer. In this episode of the Rework podcast, 37signals co-founders Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson sit down with Kimberly Rhodes to dive deeper into the concept of two-person teams and share valuable insights on the benefits, challenges, and strategies behind their unique approach.Listen in as Jason and David share the importance of short-term cycles, the significance of building their own tools for maximum efficiency, and how these principles shape their company's operations. They also discuss the expansion of two-person teams into other areas of the organization and the limitations of working as a team of one. Tune in to discover how the power of two can revolutionize teamwork and productivity.Show Notes:  [00:00] - Today, Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson are here to discuss the concept of smaller teams and how two-person teams are effective at 37signals. [00:48] - Jason shares that initially, teams at 37signals had three people, including two programmers and one designer, and why they changed to two people on each six-week cycle project. [01:33] - The constraint of having two people is not a resource issue but rather an opportunity to tighten project scopes and prioritize ideas. Direct communication between the programmer and designer eliminates translation layers and allows for efficient progress.[02:14] - How the direct collaboration of two-person teams sharing the same workspace enables rapid progress.[02:53] - David shares how working with web technologies improves two-person teams' efficiency and helps avoid delays caused by platform approvals or updates.[03:49] - The significant advantage for 37signals is that it eliminates the need for conversions.[04:44] - Enhancing the bandwidth between the two team members by removing obstacles and maximizing direct communication—how 37signals realized that having five programmers for Basecamp was too many.[05:40] - Blowing the minds of startups who think they need an army of programmers—the secrets of 37signals' productivity. [06:31] - New members easily integrate into the productive system, proving that anyone can embrace this approach.[06:45] - Two-person team pairings at 37signals are flexible—some stay together, some don't. [09:06] - Embracing the freedom of the two-person team approach by setting aside daily stand-ups and rigid check-ins in favor of a balance of oversight and support without unnecessary bureaucracy.[10:19] - The secret behind 37signals' unique management approach—how management, driven by processes rather than people, creates a more efficient work environment.[11:10] - How a simple set of questions and a six-week feature cycle can provide clarity while evaluating progress and fostering trust within the team.[12:48] - A drop of product management is all you need to drive success.[14:31] - How traditional software development approaches and large teams lead to excessive long-term planning, misguided processes, and massive hirings and firings.[16:02] - Challenging the status quo with smaller, nimble projects for greater success.[17:07] - Unlike industry giants, 37signals is focused on speed and efficiency.[19:05] - David shares the difference between producing something final instead of “a long conveyor belt of partial feature implementations that get put behind feature flags, and you have the proliferation of half-done work that has never moved off the plate.”[21:07] - Jason shares one of the biggest mistakes in business—what promises really get you (hint: it’s not to your t
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Jul 23, 2018 • 2h 17min

#329: Jason Fried — How to Live Life on Your Own Terms

Jason Fried (@jasonfried) is the co-founder and CEO at Basecamp, and the co-author of Rework, Remote: Office Not Required, and Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Successful Web Application. The upcoming It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work will be out later this year.Jason writes a regular column for Inc. magazine and is a frequent contributor to Basecamp's popular blog Signal v. Noise, which offers "strong opinions and shared thoughts on design, business, and tech."Enjoy!This podcast is brought to you by Peloton, which has become a staple of my daily routine. I picked up this bike after seeing the success of my friend Kevin Rose, and I've been enjoying it more than I ever imagined. Peloton is an indoor cycling bike that brings live studio classes right to your home. No worrying about fitting classes into your busy schedule or making it to a studio with a crazy commute.New classes are added every day, and this includes options led by elite NYC instructors in your own living room. You can even live stream studio classes taught by the world's best instructors, or find your favorite class on demand.Peloton is offering listeners to this show a special offer. Visit onepeloton.com and enter the code TIM at checkout to receive $100 off accessories with your Peloton bike purchase. This is a great way to get in your workouts, or an incredible gift. Again, that's onepeloton.com and enter the code TIM.This podcast is brought to you by WordPress, my go-to platform for 24/7-supported, zero downtime blogging, writing online, creating websites—everything! I love it to bits, and the lead developer, Matt Mullenweg, has appeared on this podcast many times.Whether for personal use or business, you're in good company with WordPress, which is used by The New Yorker, Jay Z, Beyoncé, FiveThirtyEight, TechCrunch, TED, CNN, and Time, just to name a few. A source at Google told me that WordPress offers "the best out-of-the-box SEO imaginable," which is probably why it runs nearly 30% of the Internet. Go to WordPress.com/Tim to get 15% off your website today!***If you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really makes a difference in helping to convince hard-to-get guests. I also love reading the reviews!For show notes and past guests, please visit tim.blog/podcast.Sign up for Tim’s email newsletter (“5-Bullet Friday”) at tim.blog/friday.For transcripts of episodes, go to tim.blog/transcripts.Interested in sponsoring the podcast? Please fill out the form at tim.blog/sponsor.Discover Tim’s books: tim.blog/books.Follow Tim:Twitter: twitter.com/tferriss Instagram: instagram.com/timferrissFacebook: facebook.com/timferriss YouTube: youtube.com/timferrissPast guests on The Tim Ferriss Show include Jerry Seinfeld, Hugh Jackman, Dr. Jane Goodall, LeBron James, Kevin Hart, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Jamie Foxx, Matthew McConaughey, Esther Perel, Elizabeth Gilbert, Terry Crews, Sia, Yuval Noah Harari, Malcolm Gladwell, Madeleine Albright, Cheryl Strayed, Jim Collins, Mary Karr, Maria Popova, Sam Harris, Michael Phelps, Bob Iger, Edward Norton, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Neil Strauss, Ken Burns, Maria Sharapova, Marc Andreessen, Neil Gaiman, Neil de Grasse Tyson, Jocko Willink, Daniel Ek, Kelly Slater, Dr. Peter Attia, Seth Godin, Howard Marks, Dr. Brené Brown, Eric Schmidt, Michael Lewis, Joe Gebbia, Michael Pollan, Dr. Jordan Peterson, Vince Vaughn, Brian Koppelman, Ramit Sethi, Dax Shepard, Tony Robbins, Jim Dethmer, Dan Harris, Ray Dalio, Naval Ravikant, Vitalik Buterin, Elizabeth Lesser, Amanda Palmer, Katie Haun, Sir Richard Branson, Chuck Palahniuk, Arianna Huffington, Reid Hoffman, Bill Burr, Whitney Cummings, Rick Rubin, Dr. Vivek Murthy, Darren Aronofsky, and many more.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Aug 9, 2023 • 27min

Software Has Bugs

Bugs are an inevitable part of complex software and aiming for complete bug-free perfection is not only unrealistic, but it hinders progress and product delivery.In this episode of Rework, host Kimberly Rhodes sits down with 37signals founders, Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson to discuss why you need to be realistic about bugs in software development. Listen in as David and Jason offer a behind-the-scenes look at the two-tiered approach to handling bugs in their software at 37signals and their triage plan for determining which should be fixed, when, and by whom.Tune in to uncover strategies to manage your customers' expectations while dealing with bugs WITHOUT deviating from your product roadmap Check out the full video episode on YouTubeShow Notes: [00:00] - Kimberly opens the show and shares the topic for discussion, that bugs in software are normal. [00:27] - David shares why you need to be realistic about bugs in software development.[01:18] - Bugs, a natural side effect of software. [02:08] - What makes users abandon a piece of software (hint: it’s usually not a few bugs)?[05:26] - The two-tiered (non-emotional) approach to handling the vast spectrum of bugs in complicated pieces of software.  [06:13] - When is a “bug” not a “bug”? [07:00] - Handling customer expectations without screwing up your product roadmap.  [07:52] - You need a filter: the double-edged sword of founders operating in customer support.  [08:32] - David shares a behind-the-scenes look triage at 37signals.  [09:31] - The novel QA approach of the Toyota production line that 37signals tries to emulate. [11:37] - Jason shares the difference between the software and auto industries when fixing production problems. [12:37] - Yes, quality matters, but perfect never gets shipped. [14:30] - So how do we build useful, meaningful software? [15:21] - Breaking out of bad bug thought patterns so you can keep making software of value. [16:47] - Who oversees fixing the bugs at 37signals—the methods they use to determine what gets fixed, when, and by who. [20:08] - Cleaning up the tech debt: the vital importance of a measured, mature way of scheduling things. [21:09] - Don't create ****** software—it can’t be fixed. [23:55] – Jason discusses the idea an organization might be a bigger problem than just a bug in the software.[24:44] - Why you should never become "too big" to listen to your customers. [26:28] – For more, check out our Dev.37signals blog, where the 37signals developers write about some of their processes.[26:45] - Rework is a production of 37signals. You can find show notes and transcripts on our website. Full video episodes are also available on Twitter and YouTube. If you have questions for David and Jason about a better way to work and run your business, we’d love to answer them. Leave your voicemails at 708-628-7850 or send an email. Links and Resources:From David’s HEY World: Software has bugs. This is normal. Dev.37signalsIt Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work  Sign up for a 30