Is bigger always better?

There's this prevailing notion that a company needs to have thousands of employees to create value and become successful.

And that the people behind it need to be working in the office, nearly round to clock in pursuit of double and triple digit growth goals.

Anything short of that not only raises eyebrows but also gets you tagged as a “lifestyle business”...

A soft insult often used to look down upon those who dare to veer off the beaten path of unicorn porn.

But our guest today has done the opposite.

With a team of 80 that works 40 hours a week, he’s managed to rival the growth of his competitors with 100s of millions in funding and thousands of employees working evenings and weekends…

While actually generating more profit than all of them combined!

In this episode, Jason Fried, Co-Founder & CEO of 37Signals, the company behind BaseCamp, HighRise, Hey and many other great products, books, and frameworks on building and scaling products, shares the playbook for achieving big things with small teams.

Books - https://basecamp.com/books
Products - https://37signals.com
How one dollar made us worth $100,000,000,000 (that's 100 billion) -   / basecamp-valuation-tops-100-billion-after-...  
Newsletter - https://world.hey.com/jason

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