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Jason Fried

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Jason Fried

@jasonfried

Started & runs 37signals (makers of Basecamp, HEY, and ONCE). Non-serial entrepreneur, serial author. DM or email me at [email protected].

Joined April 2008

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Jason Fried
@jasonfried
May 11, 2023
What do they got? A big team, lots of money, a strong brand, seemingly unlimited resources, panache, reputation, all that. They’re established. They’re your competitors. You want to look away, but you see them everywhere. Their ads on your social, their name in the media, your
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Jason Fried
@jasonfried
Sep 3, 2019
When Google puts 4 paid ads ahead of the first organic result for your own brand name, you’re forced to pay up if you want to be found. It’s a shakedown. It’s ransom. But at least we can have fun with it. Search for Basecamp and you may see this attached ad.
Jason Fried
@jasonfried
Dec 23, 2019
If your company requires you to work nights and weekends, your company is broken. This is a managerial problem, not your problem. This is a process problem, not a personal problem. This is an ownership problem, not an individual problem.
Jason Fried
@jasonfried
Dec 17, 2024
Big week. @elonmusk goes 2 for 2 for us. 1. Found myself in the middle of a wildfire. Bad situation. Putting out spot fires the next day, loads of smoke. Had N95, but wasn't doing the job. Wasn't feeling great, breathing labored, starting to get light headed. Neighbors who were
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Jason Fried
@jasonfried
Nov 22, 2024
A passage from the Tao that’s frequently worth revisiting.
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Jason Fried
@jasonfried
Nov 12, 2019
LAUNCH: Today we launch Basecamp Personal - a completely free version of Basecamp designed with freelancers, students, families, and personal projects in mind. Use it for hobbies, weddings, small events, side projects, volunteer gigs, etc. Here you go:
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Launch: Basecamp Gets Personal
Since the beginning, Basecamp has been marketed as a project management and collaboration tool for small businesses (or small teams inside larger businesses). However, over the years we’v…
Jason Fried
@jasonfried
Dec 23, 2019
Replying to @jasonfried
If your company requires you to work nights and weekends, they’d require you to work even more if there was more time! It’s not that nights and weekends are the exact amount of extra time required, it’s that that’s all the extra time there is. They’d take more if they could.
Jason Fried
@jasonfried
Oct 15, 2019
When I was starting my first business, I remember using a totally large random number as my first invoice number to make it seem like I’d sent *a lot* of invoices before. Hands up if you were as insecure as I was when you started your first business.
Jason Fried
@jasonfried
Jun 9, 2017
Pathetic… even Apple is promoting workaholism now. Check out this ad for their Planet Of The Apps show.
Jason Fried
@jasonfried
Feb 6, 2020
6 years ago we went all-in on Basecamp. One company, entirely focused on one product. Today we’re announcing we’ve changed our mind. The best Basecamp ever - Basecamp 4 - is coming in 2021, but first we’ll be releasing something brand new this April:
A delightfully fresh take on email + calendar, from 37signals
From hey.com
Jason Fried
@jasonfried
Aug 4, 2018
Instead of a hackathon, try a sleepathon. You’ll be better off.
Jason Fried
@jasonfried
Jun 5, 2018
Rename “cookies” to “trackers” and you’d see some progress. Who wouldn’t want to “accept cookies”?! Has anyone ever turned down a delicious cookie? But who would want to “accept trackers”?
Jason Fried
@jasonfried
Mar 3, 2021
Company culture is not written down, it’s acted out. A company’s culture is a 50-day moving average of *how it is*, not how it thinks it is, wants to be, or was supposed to be.
Jason Fried
@jasonfried
Feb 5, 2014
Prediction: If Github ends up selling itself one day, Microsoft will be the buyer.