Jason Fried
13 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 4 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 17, 2023 by Jason Fried · said 22 times in 4 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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2025 14 mentions in 2 episodes 7 per episode
2024 2 mentions in 1 episode
2023 6 mentions in 1 episode
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Dec 17, 2023
Fried: Bootstrappers must stay small because costs are their only controllable variable
“Stay as small as you can for as long as you can. Like the only thing you can really control are your costs. You can't control the alternatives in the market, the competition. You can't control them. You can't determine the market itself. You can't control the …”
Dec 17, 2023 positive
Fried: Lack of conventional knowledge sparks innovation by forcing gut reliance
“A lot of innovations happen because you don't know how other people do them, and all you have Is your gut. All you have is your intuition. All you have is how you feel about the thing. You know, like you don't have evidence. You don't have other examples to fo…”
Dec 17, 2023
Fried: Founders should avoid hiring a second person as long as possible
“Figure out how to do as much as they can on their own before they bring on a second person. Like, Really work and struggle through something on your own. The moment you bring on someone else, you've got another mouth to feed. It's becomes expensive. You get an…”
Dec 17, 2023
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Fried: Raising outside capital turns entrepreneurs into employees for others
“The moment you go out and take money, or have these big obligations, you end up working for someone else, and I don't really understand, I do understand why some companies do it, but I don't understand why a lot of people do it who probably shouldn't do it.”
Dec 17, 2023 positive
Fried: Asking candidates whose work they admire reveals their taste and inspiration
“Whose work do you admire? So it's not so much about what you can do, but what are other people doing that you think is great? I find that that really illuminates kind of you know, what kind of pulse they have on the world and what they're looking at and what i…”
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Dec 17, 2023
Fried: 37signals pays top five design finalists for one-week trial projects
“One of the things that we do during the interview process for designers specifically and product people, which is the same thing in my mind, is they do a project for us at the end. So the last, like, five finalists will do a project for them, for us. We'll pay…”
Dec 17, 2023
Fried: 37signals operates exclusively on six-week planning cycles without long-term plans
“Like we don't have a multi-year plan. I don't even have a one-year plan. I don't even have a six month plan or a court. Like we think about everything we're going to do every six weeks, we rethink what we're going to do next.”