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“Ultimately about a third of the company quit in a matter of is it a week or two.”

“I can tell you the company's in a significantly better place.”

“David wrote this great article about like getting off the cloud. It's going to save us something like ten million bucks and whatever it is.”

“The idea behind once is David and I kind of feel like, we're probably a bit early here, but we feel like there's going to be a bit of a turn back towards the way things were. Pendulums always swing.”

“I don't want to be bigger and have much lower margins. I don't want to be bigger and lose money per customer. I don't want to be bigger and have to take a bunch of money to support that growth.”

“Our bonuses are based on profits. We've been profitable for 27 years, and they're distributed every year, and they're meaningful. They're, I looked this up before the show about 20 out of the 62 people Last year, or twenty-twenty-four, because we haven't close…”

“We, we've actually grown significantly bigger than we've ever been. So we rehired a bunch of people and then have hired more since. At the time that happened, we were about 60, now we're about 80, biggest we've ever been.”

“So Jeff Bezos bought a small piece of my shares and David shares. None of his money went into the business. The money went into my bank account and David's bank account.”

“I'm certain I'm not here in 10 years but I don't know where I will be.”

“I'm certain actually not don't think I would never start another company with employees. I don't want to feel what I don't want to feel anymore is responsible for anybody else.”

“Yesterday, I answered like, 200 emails from my customers.”

“In fact, car manufacturers with the exception of Tesla, because Tesla is outstanding, but everyone else who put a bunch of screens in their cars, they're starting to move back to dials again and buttons again, because people are like, this sucks.”

“I was only invited once cause I was pretty anti raising money.”

“Our only goal is to be profitable on a given year. We've been profitable every year for 25 years.”

“And since we've been a profitable business for a long time, we generate tens of millions currently in annual profits.”

“We were one of the first SAS, SAS tools, and also first freemium tools, actually, in fact.”

“So we've got a 100,000 or so paying customers across base camp and hay, and also high rise.”

“Look, hey, we have the same number of customers roughly than they do.”

“If a company can't make its own money, they require outside money. Outside money dries up. Things have to change. I mean, there's gonna have to be late. There already is. It's not like this is news, but layoffs, deep cuts, some austerity measures. You know, th…”

“We've been profitable for 23 years, every year.”

“I don't do anything that could end me. I would never bet the company on something. I would never Bet the farm on something.”

“If you ever want to meet with Warren Buffett, what his secretary will tell you, call the day before and ask. So Warren Buffett's schedule is open. I mean, certainly there's a few things on his schedule that he has to plan, but for the most part, it's totally o…”

“I work eight hour a day. I'm done at five, five 30 roughly.”

“These teams are autonomous. They're not checking in with anybody automatically. They check in when they Feel like they need to check in, or they have questions, or if I want to look at something, we'll look at something, but they're given the full responsibili…”

“Now, I think this could be huge, actually. I think a lot of people would do it. I think it could be like an international phenomenon kind of thing, because it's so stupid and simple, and like, why not?”

“Over a 100,000 people pay us on a monthly basis for a variety of different products.”

“We built the job board in two weeks and it was generating at the time for us something like 30 grand a month, something like that with no work, like literally close next to nothing to do.”

“Stuart Butterfield sent me an email before they launched Slack. We were friends and he said, Hey, just want to let you know we're launching this thing. It's competitive with Campfire to some degree. We're buddies. I just want to like, let you know, like, that'…”

“Hey is super weird when it comes to email. Hey.com. It's just an unusual way to use email. But it resonates with tens of thousands of people who are paying for it.”

“My friend of mine ran as a Chicago based company. He would hire a lot of comedians and basically show writers to write their one, their descriptions of products that they were selling on Groupon.”

“It's typically small teams inside larger companies that experiment with this. And sometimes it spreads and sometimes it doesn't.”

“You know, we didn't, like, incorporate it. We didn't, like, call a lawyer. We didn't do anything official. We just said, like, let's sit together and see if we can land some business and go from there.”

“Managing 60 people is just hard. This is the biggest we've ever been.”

“Over a 100,000 people pay us for base camp every month.”

“We wrote we self-published our first book called Getting Real. As a PDF made, like, hundreds of thousands of dollars selling a PDF, like, way back in the day”

“We don't really spend any money on advertising and marketing. We've explored a little bit here and there, but most of our growth has been organic and it's just word of mouth.”

“Put some prices on it, put it out in the market in February of 2004. And about a year later or so, it was doing more, generating more revenue for us than our website design business.”