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Oct 4, 2024 • 45min

Catching up

After a long break, two friends reunite and dive into their fitness journeys. They share challenges like injuries and how to set up a home gym. The discussion flows into balancing life, work, and workouts between cities. They also reflect on recent adventures, including the relaxing qualities of water and cruising. Future aspirations take center stage, with playful ideas of starting an MMA group for older adults. The light-hearted banter highlights their excitement for upcoming projects and the joy found in sports and fellowship.
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May 25, 2024 • 1h 39min

Hiring for tiny teams with Justin Jackson

Justin Jackson from Transistor joins Adam to discuss hiring insights, including team recruitment, candidate selection, and interview process. They share tips on standing out as a candidate, building relationships, and increasing luck surface area. The discussion covers job postings, navigating small team dynamics, and the power of personal connections in the hiring process.
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Apr 2, 2024 • 1h 11min

Ben steps away from Tuple

Co-founder Ben steps back from Tuple to join the board. Aaron interviews Ben about the journey. They discuss friendship, personal growth, leadership transitions, team dynamics, embracing change, new beginnings, and starting a new business venture.
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Jan 17, 2024 • 51min

Building the HEY Calendar with Jason Fried

Jason Fried, Co-founder and CEO of 37signals, discusses building and shipping the new HEY Calendar product. Topics include why they built a calendar, their approach to new product development, deciding on scope before launch, the role of Shape Up, working on one feature at a time vs. in parallel, early project cycles, starting a new project with design, decision-making and finding confidence, achieving clarity in project goals, and the current state of Hey Calendar development.
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6 snips
Jan 14, 2024 • 1h 37min

Ben and Adam review 2023

This podcast episode reviews the year 2023, covering topics such as fitness, mental health, creating gatherings, following intuition, productivity, and improvements for 2024.
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Dec 4, 2023 • 46min

Revisiting the Tailwind Labs business model

Adam and Ben discuss the Tailwind Labs business model and explore options like a marketplace for templates and UI kits, and building a SaaS. They also talk about improving Tailwind CSS, the benefits of pool rooms for communication, and the impact of competitors' UI kits. They consider the challenges of dividing attention between commercial and open source work and the idea of implementing an exclusivity clause in the business model. Overall, they focus on finding better alternatives and improving the Tailwind CSS community.
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5 snips
Nov 27, 2023 • 40min

Launching features like products

Adam Wathan and Ben discuss recent events at Tailwind Labs and Tuple, including Adam's speaking engagements and Ben's learnings from feature launches. They also talk about the challenges and rewards of speaking at conferences, the development and launch process of a feature, and the introduction of a new screen sharing feature called 'app fail'. Additionally, they discuss marketing plans for a new app and advertising strategies for well-established brands in the technology industry.
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4 snips
Oct 26, 2023 • 1h 12min

Building the right team with Jason Fried

Jason Fried, founder and CEO of 37signals, shares his best advice on hiring. They discuss knowing when to hire, grouping responsibilities, delegating tasks, hiring to get more done, successful new hires, giving feedback, letting people go, and assessing good judgment in candidates.
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13 snips
Sep 12, 2023 • 1h 21min

Q&A: Starting over, the ideal employee, success and happiness, and selling the company

Personal updates, starting a business today, ideal employee, reflecting on progress, selling the company, lake houses, home gyms, strength standards, hobbies and purchases, hiring mistakes, luck in business, qualities of an ideal employee, attention to detail, challenges of delegation and balancing success and happiness.
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17 snips
Aug 30, 2023 • 49min

Predictable mistakes of the developer-turned-founder

In this podcast, Ben and Adam discuss predictable mistakes made by developers turned founders, including starting with SaaS, selling to consumers and struggling businesses, not pre-selling, assuming people are rational, not choosing a likeable customer, being comfortable with pricing, raising VC, and overfocusing on legal and compliance.

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