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Jason Fried

Co-founder and CEO, 37signals · 1 appearance on the record.

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Jason Fried is the co-founder and CEO of 37signals, the software company behind Basecamp and HEY. He is an advocate for bootstrapped businesses and has co-authored bestselling books including Rework, Remote, and It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work.

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Everything Jason Fried said on the Startup Ideas Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Disclosure
Fried: I never think about user acquisition when evaluating new product ideas
“How much are you thinking about how am I going to get the first 100,000 people to download this? Jason Fried: I don't think about that at all. Jason Fried: For me, it's like is the idea any good?”
Jason Fried Sep 9, 2024 ▶ 26:58 The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software
Opinion
Fried: The software industry is too serious and takes itself too seriously
“And this is not fair because there are, there's plenty of like fun software, but a lot of the, a lot of it is the software industry is too serious. It takes itself too seriously.”
Jason Fried Sep 9, 2024 ▶ 35:32 The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software
Opinion
Fried: Digital sketching apps suffer from permanence and cluttered toolbars
“One of the things that bugs me about sketching apps is how permanent they are. I know you can delete in the whole thing, but like, there's just tools, there's tools everywhere.”
Jason Fried Sep 9, 2024 ▶ 23:10 The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software
Insight
Fried: Discontinuing apps after production runs creates collector value like luxury watches
“Like Patek Philippe, for example, will make a watch for six years or for four years and then just discontinue it. So it wasn't like we're going to make a thousand and just, it's like, we're going to make this and we're going to decide at some point that there'…”
Jason Fried Sep 9, 2024 ▶ 31:54 The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software
Opinion
Fried: Modern software design aesthetics feel cold and clinical
“In a way that I find a lot of software to be very clinical and cold, especially like modern design aesthetics. A lot of stuff just feels very cold and clinical. So I think you can bring a little bit of like, this feels warm.”
Jason Fried Sep 9, 2024 ▶ 39:01 The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Fried: A daily scratch-off ad app could become an international phenomenon
“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?”
Jason Fried Sep 9, 2024 ▶ 6:04 The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software
Disclosure
Fried: Sketching on steamy shower doors inspires my product interface designs
“I draw interfaces all the time on shower doors. That's where a lot of my, like, product interface ideas come from.”
Jason Fried Sep 9, 2024 ▶ 19:02 The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software
Disclosure
Jason Fried: 37signals is trying to build weirder software products
“In our minds at 37 signals, we're actually, we've been pretty conscious lately, last few months specifically, actually been talking about this more internally and we're trying to make some really sort of Weirder things.”
Jason Fried Sep 9, 2024 ▶ 42:33 The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software
Disclosure
Fried Dislikes Selling Ads and Won't Build Ad-Based Products
“I kind of don't want this to exist because I just don't like the idea of like, Selling ads.”
Jason Fried Sep 9, 2024 ▶ 7:23 The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software

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Appearances (1)

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The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software Sep 9, 2024 31m
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