Basecamp

“I don't use anything. I'm super old school. I send my team like an email list each day. I kind of hate all those base camp type things. And I just keep my notes on email and draft format to myself.”

“We've always had the bootstrap mindset, like the heroes of ours are people like Basecamp and people like that, and we love the idea of building a sustainable, profitable business, which is what we are today.”

“The real reason is like, I'm pretty happy running the company cashflow. Like I don't know, to be honest, if you're cashflow positive and you can be profitable and you can grow at a sustainable rate, Why? And you're growing at a decent rate enough that you know…”

“Yeah, well, the reason we made this product is because Basecamp sucks.”

“They, they're a super private company. They don't have actually any shareholders other than I think Jeff Bezos owns five percent.”

“Chris is like an amazingly smart guy and he's like a very sophisticated operator. He doesn't know for a reason. And that's because like he's focused on building a brand and an amazing product. And I think coming from the VC world, it's hard to let go of that s…”

“I mean, honestly, like, I think I mean, I was kind of, like, against this, you know, like, the bootstrapping, especially, like, if you, like, hear the base camp guys, like, equity has no value and stuff like that, but it's kind of bullshit, because, like, equi…”

“We love Basecamp. We love Google chat. Those are the two tools that we depend on. We run an entire company on that actually.”

“Okay, so, you know, I, I'm very inspired with the case of Basecamp, so I don't want to grow a really huge team, but I understand that I need to hire, like, several more engineers, maybe two to three, and anyway, we got to the point where we found our product m…”