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Jason Fried

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Mushrooms uses other
"The last time I did these are mushrooms, by the way. I've done this three times. And the experiences are always wow like wow like while I'm doing it."
Concept2 Rower recommends product
"Concept2 is probably one of my favorite products of all time. The Concept2 rower. That is a perfect product. One of the few perfect products I've ever seen."
Porsche 911 mentions product
"Porsche 911 similar but you were showing pictures from like I think let's just say it's Rolex. Look at this Rolex design in 1960. Basically perfect. Has everything I need, nothing I don't."
AOL mentions software
"I put up on AOL. So this is like pre-internet, right?"
WhatsApp mentions software
"You want to write someone on WhatsApp? Well, they have to have WhatsApp signal. They have to have signal whatever, right?"
Signal mentions software
"You want to write someone on WhatsApp? Well, they have to have WhatsApp signal. They have to have signal whatever, right?"
Print magazine mentions media
"I think there was an organization called brand but maybe I'm wrong. Print actually was this magazine that had all these pictures of business cards and stuff and every designer I know would look through other business cards for inspiration."
The Creative Act mentions media
"When I read that book, I was like, did I write this book? Not like really, you wrote the book, but you know what I mean?"
Nest thermostat mentions product
"Like Nest is good. This doesn't have Nest. Like Nest is a great product. Thermostats have gotten worse. Nest maybe is an exception. I'll give grant them that. Good product. Really good product."
Tesla touchscreen mentions product
"Car manufacturers with the exception of Tesla because Tesla's is outstanding. But everyone else who put a bunch of screens in their cars, they're starting to move back to dials again."
Rolex Daytona mentions product
"You take a Rolex Daytona today and you look back at the first one in 1963. To me, the one in 1963, not just cuz it's older, it's better in my opinion aesthetically because it's the purest form of the concept of the idea."
AWS mentions software
"We just recently left the cloud, left AWS, and we're running our own stuff now in data centers."
Basecamp created software
"Every five six years we kind of reinvented Basecamp which is our main product biggest product."
The Distance podcast created media
"We used to have a podcast back in the day called The Distance which was a podcast that we did a few years of businesses that had been around for 25 years or more."
37signals created other
"We had 62 people at 37 Signals, and we've gotten as high as I think 80 at some point, and then we're about 63 or 62 right now."
Hey created software
"Hey, which is our email service and we before we launched before the product was even anywhere near done. I wrote the letter."
The Distance created media
"We used to have a podcast back in the day called The Distance which was a podcast that we did a few years of businesses that had been around for 25 years or more."
Audio File created software
"I made this database to keep track of my music collection because I was loaning out tapes and CDs to friends and never getting them back."
FileMaker Pro created software
"I started in software making stuff actually something called FileMaker Pro which is like way back when you can make these databases for yourself."