Jason Fried
19 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 9 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Mar 19, 2019 by Jason Fried · said 4 times in 4 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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Mar 19, 2019 neutral
Fried: Jeff Bezos bought secondary shares in Basecamp in 2006
“He never invested in Basecamp, the company, essentially. Like, his money was never put in the business to run the business. We've always a hundred, for 20 years as we've been, as long as we've been in business, we've always been a hundred percent funded by cus…”
Mar 19, 2019 negative
Fried: Software industry is sick with perpetual high-growth expectations
“I see it in our industry is sick with that. I think Primarily, I would guess because it's a high growth industry, first of all. So like, there's this expectation you're supposed to live up to. And when you look at all the, let's say the great companies in the …”
Mar 19, 2019 negative
Mar 19, 2019 negative
Fried: College graduates are poorly taught how to write and communicate
“The thing that surprises me most about people coming out of school is how poorly school teaches people how to write and communicate actually. I read cover letters and whatnot, and I'm just surprised that, you know, you can graduate college and not really know …”
Mar 19, 2019 positive
Basecamp bans shared calendars, forcing direct negotiation for colleagues' time
“We don't have, for example, we don't have shared calendars at base camp, so I can't see anyone else's schedule and they can't see mine. So I can't take their time and they can't take mine. If they want some of mine or I want some of theirs, we have to ask each…”
Mar 19, 2019 positive
Mar 19, 2019
Mar 19, 2019 negative
Fried: Basecamp expects eventual responses rather than immediate communication
“And so like at our company, at Basecamp, we try to think, you know, the expectation is of eventual response, not of immediate response. And if someone doesn't get back to you quickly, it's because they're working. They're doing something more important than wh…”
Mar 19, 2019 neutral
Basecamp uses zero data to guide its product development
“We're not a data driven company in terms of product development.
we use data a lot for improving performance in terms of our infrastructure, making sure that we get back to customers in a reasonable amount of time, which is like currently about 10 minutes.
…”
Mar 19, 2019 negative
Fried: Speeding up audio is unhealthy and creates false expectations of speed
“I don't think it's necessarily a good thing to have information come at you that fast because you're in a hurry to get it. I think it kind of creates this expectation of everything coming at you fast. I don't think that that's necessarily that healthy either.”
Mar 19, 2019 negative
Fried: Businesses fail from internal mistakes, not competitor spending
“Every single one of them die. Often they kill themselves though. They don't change. They don't do something right. They don't pay attention to customers. They get cocky. They get greedy, whatever it might be. It's usually those things. It's not that's a compet…”
Mar 19, 2019 negative
Jason Fried rejects growth targets and desires to 'change the world'
“So those are the expectations I have for myself, but I don't have expectations or run growth. I don't have personal goals. I don't want to be seen in a certain way. Like I don't need to be in the media. Like I don't have that kind of stuff. I also don't have a…”
Mar 19, 2019 neutral
Fried: The software industry is not winner-take-all
“It might be true in a specific market where it is really winner take all, but I don't think it is in our industry. I mean, that's why there's hundreds of companies roughly doing kind of similar things that we're doing. And many of them are going to do quite we…”
Mar 19, 2019
Mar 19, 2019
Fried: Long work hours stem from fragmentation, not workload volume
“The reason why a lot of people are working those longer hours is not because there's 12 hours of work to do. It's because they can't find time within those 12 hours to actually get a few contiguous hours of time to actually do the work they need to do. So thei…”
Mar 19, 2019 negative
Mar 19, 2019
Fried: Publicly sharing internal business methods does not threaten a company's survival
“Chefs, great chefs will write cookbooks and they're putting their recipes in a cookbook and they're not afraid of someone taking that cookbook. Reading other recipes and opening a restaurant next to them and putting them out of business. That's just not how it…”
Mar 19, 2019
Feb 7, 2023 negative
Dignan: Organizations sabotage themselves by overreacting to isolated mistakes with sweeping policies
“The first thing is that we tend to do what Jason Freed calls scarring on the first cut. So when something doesn't work or goes wrong or there's an issue or somebody steals a laptop, the organization freaks out and it immediately reacts with a policy or a proce…”