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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Jason Fried comes up on Top Founders, My First Million, the Startup Ideas Podcast, Startups For the Rest of Us, Lenny's Podcast
DHH: How to Build a Profitable Company Without Losing Control
- ▶ 0:58 David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) And then Jason and I went through it and cut it in half.
- ▶ 4:25 David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) Jason had hired me at 15 dollars an hour. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:10 David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) Neither Jason or I ended up using it, because we don't actually interact with that many people, that we need to keep track of things.
- ▶ 52:09 David Senra You, you mentioned earlier, um, you know, I thought this was absolutely ridiculous where people forever would describe you and Jason and the business you build is like a lifestyle business. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:42 David Senra Because I didn't know who the hell Kathy Sierra was until I learned about her through your and Jason's writing. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:58 David Senra It's just you and Jason making all the decisions. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:22:43 David Senra And in fact, we were talking last night, I'm going to pull up the group chat that we're in with, with Jason.
- ▶ 1:26:43 David Senra The, what Bezos did, what Jeff Bezos did for you and Jason was gave you the confidence to go for it. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:33:29 David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) And we kind of got boiled like a frog a little bit at 37 Singles, Jason and I, where we had probably seen good intentions in places where there weren't any and allowed things to kind of roll. 3 times in the scene
How Elon Thinks
- ▶ 1:36:33 unnamed speaker I think like some people are Jason Fried and some people are Elon Musk.
$100M+ Advice That'll Piss Off Every Business Guru (ft. DHH)
- ▶ 2:43 David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) Yeah, so a lot of it is simply based on the fact that neither Jason or I can shut up about what we believe. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:49 David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) And the other aspect of that is that both Jason and I did spend quite a long time working for other people.
- ▶ 12:52 David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) Now that's not universally true in all cases, but I do think it describes the case that Jason or I went through. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:28 Sam Parr Can I tell you guys about a, uh, a funny interaction I had with your business partner, Jason? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:10 David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) And some of it is just a reflection of the dynamics of social media is that the right hook doesn't travel anymore because all the main, uh, media outlets, uh, or social media outlets, X in particular, where both Jason and I are strong,
- ▶ 51:29 Shaan Puri And I think whenever we had Jason on or you on, like, that's one of the things that we like and respect the most. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:55 David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) I think on the longevity front, the number one objective, both Jason and I, is to ensure that 37 Sigils is still a place we want to work. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:38 David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) But because our circumstances are as they are, and as we've been discussing now for quite a while, Jason and I just went like, no that. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:15:25 Shaan Puri Like me and Sam said, we've been, uh, inspired by you and Jason for a very long time of, uh, you do things your own way, and I think that's the highest compliment that we can give.
Claude Code Built My $450K Marketing Campaign
- ▶ 14:34 Jonathan Courtney And if you look at an, uh, at the example of levels, uh, Peter levels X account, you could even take a look at like, you know, Jason Freed's X account or any of the people that you associate with selling really great, interesting digital…
- ▶ 25:02 Jonathan Courtney You remember I talked about Dario, about Jason Fried, about levels and the process of doing this and bringing up the blueprint
AI's Napster era, Alex Honnold, ChatGPT Ads | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 18:07 unnamed speaker Jason
xAI Raises $20B, Anthropic’s $350B Valuation, OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Health | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 23:18 Jordi Hays Jason Freed went hard on smart homes. 2 times in the scene