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Canva Slashes Growth | Talent Exodus at Google | Revolut's $50B CEO Package | Musk's $55B Terrafab Aug 12, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 12:18 Jason Lemkin I mean, I'm just playing the devil's advocate, but Rory's point, if I were the founder, if the three of us were the founders, I might want to run this thing like Basecamp, right?

Sam Altman's Masterplan or a Gift to Anthropic? Palantir & Shopify Crush Earnings · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 14, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:23:39 Rory O'Driscoll I think James is great to, it would be fun to get someone like, is it Basecamp or Zapier on here, who has probably run the thought experiment.

Des Traynor: How to Survive and Thrive in a World of OpenAI | E1082 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 15, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 5:14 Des Traynor And so if you're like an AI first version of base camp, I still think that looks like base camp 2 times in the scene

Basecamp CEO Jason Fried: We Banned Talking Politics and 1/3 of our Team Quit | 20VC #963 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 6, 2023 · 11 mentions

  • ▶ 0:12 Harry Stebbings How did you come to found Basecamp now, 23 years ago? 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 3:39 Harry Stebbings And if I was a business insider journalist, I would do Jason Fried wants to leave base camp.
  • ▶ 16:33 Jason Fried The results that they aren't directly influencing, like for example, someone's working on a feature in Basecamp, some improvement to the calendar, right?
  • ▶ 21:27 Harry Stebbings You obviously made the political statement of not having politics within base camp, which backfired or seemingly backfired from kind of press. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 36:15 Jason Fried Um, I think, you know, we talk all the time in base camp.
  • ▶ 46:30 Jason Fried And this was to take some risk off the table because we didn't know back then base camp was two years in. 2 times in the scene

Tristan Handy: Why The CEO Should Make As Few Decisions As Possible | 20VC #937 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 14, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 16:39 Tristan Handy Um, and so it was, we were like, we were hoping to do the kind of base camp path of like, let's just own this thing internally and, uh, you know, grow it on internally generated revenue.

20VC: Scaling Zapier To $140M ARR and a $5Bn Valuation on $1.4M of Funding, What Founders Misunderstand About Fundraising & How Founders Should Think About Secondaries Today with Wade Foster, Founder & CEO @ Zapier Apr 15, 2021 · 3 mentions

20VC: Basecamp CEO Jason Fried on His Relationship To Risk, Money, Vulnerability and Self-Doubt, Fantasising About Being Fired, How To Optimise Decision-Making and Minimising Regret Mar 22, 2021 · 11 mentions

  • ▶ 0:18 Harry Stebbings Luckily, he was okay with my wayward questions, but to Jason, he's the co-founder and CEO at Basecamp, the project management and team communication tool trusted by millions. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 2:48 Harry Stebbings It really is, but I do want to start saying, you know, it's been 21 years since you co-founded Basecamp. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 25:16 Jason Fried Everybody at Basecamp would be able to get wonderful jobs somewhere else. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 37:03 Harry Stebbings Tell me, what's the hardest element of your role with Basecamp today? 2 times in the scene

20VC: Andrew Wilkinson on Building The Berkshire Hathway of Tech, Sustainable vs Unsustainable Growth and The Relationship Between Money and Freedom Jun 22, 2020 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 5:54 Andrew Wilkinson When I looked at SAS and recurring revenue, I became obsessed with this idea of making money while I slept, and I started reading about Basecamp and what David Hahnemeyer Hansen and Jason Fried were doing, and I said, I'm going to do that,…
  • ▶ 29:03 Harry Stebbings And, you know, I had David from Basecamp on the show very recently, and he said about kind of
  • ▶ 33:58 Andrew Wilkinson Well, you know, it's top of mind because he's your last guest, but I've always thought that Jason and David from Basecamp have it made.

20VC: Framework For Hiring The Best Talent 100% Remotely, Raising $32M From Benchmark and GV Pre-Launch and How To Think Through Capital Efficiency and Runway Today with Jeff Seibert and Wayne Chang, Co-Founders @ Digits May 1, 2020 · 1 mention

20VC: Basecamp Founder David Heinemeier Hansson on Why It Is The Biggest BS To Chase Being A Unicorn, His Relationship to Wealth and Status and Why Now More Than Ever It Is A Myth Entrepreneurs Have To Raise VC Apr 14, 2020 · 35 mentions

  • ▶ 0:30 Harry Stebbings He's also the founder and CTO at Basecamp, the all-in-one toolkit for remote companies, formerly named 37 Signals, and he's also the best-selling co-author of Rework and Remote Office Not Required.
  • ▶ 1:55 Harry Stebbings However, that's quite enough from me, so now I'm very, very excited to hand over to David Heinemar Hansen, founder and CTO at Basecamp. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 8:46 David Heinemeier Hansson I think meetings suck for that purpose, and I think we're much better off when we use anything from email to Basecamp to other ways of asynchronous communication where someone can write something up, be considered
  • ▶ 9:50 David Heinemeier Hansson So the way we deal with it at Basecamp is that instead of 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 10:48 David Heinemeier Hansson We do the same thing in asynchronous form using Basecamp. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 12:54 Harry Stebbings I think the really striking thing for me when I look at Basecamp is actually the headcount. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 15:01 David Heinemeier Hansson The vast majority of the coordination work that we do, the executive functions that we do, the delegation that we do happens asynchronously through Basecamp.
  • ▶ 16:45 Harry Stebbings Big an impact as you do with Basecamp. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 25:23 David Heinemeier Hansson It's not this sort of quest where we're uncovering some truly unique beacons for Basecamp that like, oh, wow, we're going to be so unique because this is, this is what we do, right?
  • ▶ 27:23 David Heinemeier Hansson And it also goes to the example that we've been trying to set at Basecamp is you just, you don't need a thousand people. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 42:40 David Heinemeier Hansson I don't think there's anything supernatural about how we operate Basecamp or how I go to work. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 46:31 Harry Stebbings I want to finish, though, on the next five years for you and for Basecamp. 2 times in the scene

20VC: InVision Founder Clark Valberg on Why True Leadership is Like Writing, How To Be Truly Self-Aware & The Fundamental False Premise of Entrepreneurship Aug 30, 2019 · 1 mention

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