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Jason Fried
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Founder & CEO at 37signals (makers of Basecamp and HEY). Non-serial entrepreneur, serial author. No DMs, email me at jason@hey.com.
world.hey.com/jasonJoined April 2008

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Today's my last day of work for a while. I'm headed out on sabbatical. Aside from a short trip to New Zealand and Australia, nothing's planned beyond basic family obligations. Eager to have open space, and an open mind. Cya back here in March.
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Always a blast to talk with on his 20VC podcast. We just caught up for another wide-ranging episode about leadership, teams, running to/from things, no goals, office politics, and a bunch more. Fun one for sure. Here's the episode:
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Starting off the new year by shipping three new often-requested Basecamp features: To-do Templates, Group Autocomplete, and Required 2FA. Full details here: updates.37signals.com/post/new-to-do All live in your Basecamp 4 account today. Also available to all new customers who sign up now.
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INTERNSHIPS: For the first time in years, we are opening up three engineering internships this summer (June 5 - Sept 1). These are paid internships ($2000/week, 4-day weeks), and fully remote. Full details are available here: apply.workable.com/37signals/j/41 We're excited to meet you.
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And, to be clear (since people are asking), I'm both disinterested and unqualified to run a company of thousands of people. I have the profit thing down (23 straight years!), but I'd be lost in a sea of abundance with that many people. Small and scrappy is my thing.
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Out of all the people publicly vying/crying/begging for the Twitter CEO job, which ones have run a profitable company? Or run a company that was profitable for at least 3 years in a row? Twitter doesn't need to turn a personality, it needs to turn a profit. cc:
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Hey! Help us spread the word about HEY and we'll pop some credit on your account. Here's how it works: updates.37signals.com/post/new-in-he
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Hey! We just launched a new feature that helps you save some money while spreading the word about HEY. To turn it on, head to Account Settings › Earn free months of HEY. For every 3 months you have the Sent with HEY footer on, you’ll earn a free month of HEY. 💌
"Sent with HEY – Email as it should be" email footer
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If you're a small business owner & have yet to read Rework by & , you should. Here's a page that hits a crucial nail squarely on the head. The book is a big word hammer designed to beat the shit out of bureaucracies & popular/crappy business ideologies. Read it 👊🏼
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Really nice to see an "Unsubscribe" block in standard body copy size rather than the lightest possible grey at the smallest possible size hidden in a paragraph of unrelated text. No obfuscation here. This one is from Zingerman's. Bravo for clarity.
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The iPhone, 2007: An iPod. A Phone. An Internet Communicator. The Casio QL-10, 1980: A Calculator. An Alarm Clock. A Lighter. Who wins?
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“How do you validate if people will buy it to not?” “How do you validate product market fit?” “How do you validate if a feature is worth building?” “How do you validate a design?” You can’t. You can’t. You can’t. You can’t. VALIDATION IS A MIRAGE:
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Game changer for KakarikoHerald.com since we have a limit on how long we're allowed to retain certain information. Up until this point, we've just used Google Drive or Dropbox, but now we can consolidate all that into BC4. Thanks Basecamp team 💜 Cc:
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NEW: Limit chat history. Now you can choose how long Ping and Campfire history is retained for your organization. updates.37signals.com/post/new-in-ba
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