Jason Fried
24 statements across 3 episodes · 10 bullish · 3 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Mar 20, 2024 by Jason Fried · said 28 times in 6 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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brought up most by David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) (13), Sam Parr (8), Shaan Puri (6), Andrew Wilkinson (1)
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2026 22 mentions in 1 episode
2025 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2024 1 mention in 1 episode
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Mar 20, 2024 neutral
Stewart Butterfield Gave Jason Fried Advance Notice Before Launching Slack
“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'…”
Mar 20, 2024 positive
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…”
Mar 20, 2024 positive
Mar 20, 2024 negative
Mar 20, 2024 positive
Mar 20, 2024 positive
Fried: Elon Musk's fast problem-solving reduces risk rather than being reckless
“So that might seem reckless. And I think it was positioned or pitched almost as reckless in the book. To me, that's like, Common sense, fundamental, smart problem solving. And you think about all the other risks it saves, and all the other things it prevents, …”
Mar 20, 2024 positive
Mar 20, 2024
Mar 20, 2024
Build Novel Features First Because Public Feedback Demands Standard Features
“If you just wait till the end to try to add those novelties, you'll never have enough time. You're always running out of time at the end and you're never going to try new things. You're not going to have the tolerance or the patience to wander. So then you end…”
Mar 20, 2024
Fried: Saying 'no' preserves options while 'yes' eliminates future opportunities
“No is a very precise, you know, precision instrument because you get to evaluate a thing and say no to it. And they have the whole spectrum of everything else that's possible available to you at that point. So I think no is a great tool. It's very specific. Ye…”
Mar 20, 2024 positive
Mar 20, 2024 bearish
Jason Fried: SaaS Subscriptions Overcharge Users for Marginal Software Updates
“Software. I know it's improving, but it's improving around the marginal edges. You already have 90% of it on day one when you bought the damn thing. And so you're paying over and over and over and over for essentially the same thing. And at some point, if you'…”
Mar 20, 2024 neutral
Jun 5, 2024 positive
Jun 5, 2024 neutral
Fried: DHH and I are great partners but rarely socialize outside work
“We're not, like, we're friends, but we don't see each other very often. We live in the same town, and we don't see each other. I see them once every, I don't know, couple months. We're very good partners and we're friendly, but we just don't, we don't hang out…”
Jun 5, 2024
Fried: Vast Majority of 37signals Co-Founders' Net Worth Is Tied to Business
“Basically all of our, you know, essentially the vast majority of our net worth is tied into our business, and we know what our distributions are and all that stuff, but yeah, we don't, I mean, we don't talk about that ever”
Jun 5, 2024 neutral
Jun 5, 2024 negative
Jason Fried: Business imports outside lessons only because it pays for advice
“And the main reason is why, in my opinion, is because the business world pays for that advice. It's not that it deserves the advice. It's not even that it's advice that's applicable, but that it pays for the advice. And the way I've been thinking about it is n…”
Jun 5, 2024 bullish
Jun 5, 2024 neutral
Fried: Hired CEOs lack the latitude to take founder-level risks
“Even if you hire a great, great CEO to replace you with CEO, like they're, they just don't have that... There's that thing that's present in a founder simply because they were there from the beginning, that they have an extra ounce of, it's not even that they'…”
Jun 5, 2024 positive
Jun 5, 2024 neutral
Mar 17, 2026 neutral
DHH: 37signals ignored its data scientist for a decade, trusting intuition instead
“And after trying that for over a decade, Jason and I finally came to the conclusion in honesty that we never did what the numbers told us to do. What we would do was, we would do whatever the hell we wanted to do, and then if the numbers supported that, we'd g…”