Basecamp

7 statements across 3 episodes · 5 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Nov 22, 2023 by Andrew Wilkinson · said 24 times in 7 episodes since 2021 · across every show →

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Nov 22, 2023 positive
Insight
Wilkinson: Neglected SaaS side projects are prime acquisition targets
“When you see a business where they're just not, they're myopic on something, they're not doing the best practices. And often it's because they have other priorities. I mean, The base camp guys had a hundred million dollar ARR SaaS business. The last thing they…”
Andrew Wilkinson Nov 22, 2023 ▶ 12:05 Andrew Wilkinson's $20,000 to $260,000,000 story (#521)
Nov 22, 2023 bullish
Assertion Partly supported
Wilkinson: Tiny scaled We Work Remotely from $400K to $4M EBITDA
“We bought a business about almost 10 years ago called weworkremotely.com. And it's very simple. It's a job board... We buy the business. We pay three or four times earnings or something, which was, you know, a fair price given what it was doing. We immediately…”
Andrew Wilkinson Nov 22, 2023 ▶ 9:44 Andrew Wilkinson's $20,000 to $260,000,000 story (#521)
Mar 20, 2024 positive
Disclosure
Fried: Basecamp caps monthly pricing at $299 for unlimited users
“We don't charge any of our customers more than 299 dollars a month period flat. So with Basecamp, you can have 6000 users at just two 99 flat unlimited users at that point. So we don't offer the same thing where people could be spending 50, 60 grand or 10 gran…”
Jason Fried Mar 20, 2024 ▶ 46:39 The Cashflow King: “Here’s How I Do It”, Negotiating w/ Jeff Bezos, Elon’s Cracked Rocket
Mar 17, 2026 negative
What-if
DHH: Basecamp would never have created Ruby on Rails with venture funding
“If we had raised, I don't know, twenty million dollars and hired a hundred people, we would just use the same shit as everyone else, and we would never have come up with Ruby on Rails.”
David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) Mar 17, 2026 ▶ 16:13 $100M+ Advice That'll Piss Off Every Business Guru (ft. DHH)
Mar 17, 2026 neutral
Disclosure
DHH: 37signals has never disclosed full revenue or profits
“No, we've never disclosed the full revenues nor full profits. I think we've said tens of millions or something. I don't even know.”
David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) Mar 17, 2026 ▶ 0:37 $100M+ Advice That'll Piss Off Every Business Guru (ft. DHH)
Mar 17, 2026 positive
Insight
DHH: Severe operational constraints trigger creativity and technical optimizations
“All of those constraints apply themselves to our situation and then just produces an explosion of creativity because that's what very often happens. When you are deprived in all the right ways, you will find out Oh, there's a better way to do this. You will fi…”
David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) Mar 17, 2026 ▶ 14:36 $100M+ Advice That'll Piss Off Every Business Guru (ft. DHH)
Mar 17, 2026 positive
Assertion Contradicted
DHH: Basecamp had SaaS project management to itself for a decade
“It certainly served us well for many, many years when we had the entire project management space in SaaS to ourselves, and we were laughing all the way to the bank because clearly someone else must have realized this was a highly profitable, not even niche, bu…”
David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) Mar 17, 2026 ▶ 0:48 $100M+ Advice That'll Piss Off Every Business Guru (ft. DHH)
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