Saturday
Mar202010
Saturday, March 20, 2010 at 11:06AM This Week in Startups #46 with David Heinemeier Hansson
Jason’s guest this week was David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails and partner at 37signals. This show will go down as one of the epic shows, two great entrepreneurs both with often what appeared to be differing opinions but similar in many way. You’ll have to watch to understand that comment, not to mention 2 great insights from Tyler “he’s back!”.
Insight From Tyler, "Going out for drinks and not going back to her place"
00:05 Ask Jason, Angela Benton (Black Web 2.0) calls in to ask, Do you think the Weblogs, Inc model will work today, in a specific vertical or niche?
00:18 It’s all about solving pain points
00:23 Jason’s Shark Tank, Devrim Yasar calls in to pitch Kodingen, a cloud development environment
Insight From Tyler, “Homeless Hotty At A Hip Hop Club” you’ll have to watch to understand
00:47 Interview, How David got started in tech.
He Got his first computer at 6 years old, his friends became programmers and he had no interest in C++
His first interest was in gaming and he ran a gaming review site (1997) about the upcoming launch of Quake 3
He worked an incubator in Denmark but quickly realized it wasn’t working which led to an interesting discussion about Europe vs the US and that in Europe you are accountable for VC money.
00:50 David isn’t a swing for the fences guy he believes in singles and base hits as a way to run your company
Jason shares his progression from the base hit approach to swinging for the fences through his three companies
Freemium vs premium discussion (Facebook vs 37signals)
David is not a believer in getting eyeballs = money
00:56 David believes market share doesn’t matter it’s all about profit
If offered an absurd amount of money he wouldn’t sell 37signals, he enjoys the work
01:02 David thinks that you should be working on your best idea at any given time
It's all about profit not revenue
01:06 How “the exit” has changed the game
01:10 How the system is set up to benefit the entrepreneurs
Build a profitable business
Money taken from (Jeff Bezos) went to the founders and wasn’t to grow the company
01:14 David’s delusion's of granger
01:16 David would not trade 37signals for Salesforce
David may believe in an older form of capitalism
01:22 News with Mike Bracco
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Insight From Tyler, "Going out for drinks and not going back to her place"
00:05 Ask Jason, Angela Benton (Black Web 2.0) calls in to ask, Do you think the Weblogs, Inc model will work today, in a specific vertical or niche?
00:18 It’s all about solving pain points
00:23 Jason’s Shark Tank, Devrim Yasar calls in to pitch Kodingen, a cloud development environment
Insight From Tyler, “Homeless Hotty At A Hip Hop Club” you’ll have to watch to understand
00:47 Interview, How David got started in tech.
He Got his first computer at 6 years old, his friends became programmers and he had no interest in C++
His first interest was in gaming and he ran a gaming review site (1997) about the upcoming launch of Quake 3
He worked an incubator in Denmark but quickly realized it wasn’t working which led to an interesting discussion about Europe vs the US and that in Europe you are accountable for VC money.
00:50 David isn’t a swing for the fences guy he believes in singles and base hits as a way to run your company
Jason shares his progression from the base hit approach to swinging for the fences through his three companies
Freemium vs premium discussion (Facebook vs 37signals)
David is not a believer in getting eyeballs = money
00:56 David believes market share doesn’t matter it’s all about profit
If offered an absurd amount of money he wouldn’t sell 37signals, he enjoys the work
01:02 David thinks that you should be working on your best idea at any given time
It's all about profit not revenue
01:06 How “the exit” has changed the game
01:10 How the system is set up to benefit the entrepreneurs
Build a profitable business
Money taken from (Jeff Bezos) went to the founders and wasn’t to grow the company
01:14 David’s delusion's of granger
01:16 David would not trade 37signals for Salesforce
David may believe in an older form of capitalism
01:22 News with Mike Bracco
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Reader Comments (28)
I don't know what's going on with the formatting but my iphone wouldn't play the show #46 it said because of a format problem. I don't know if other people are having the same problem. I have too slow a connection to play it on-line shame! I will have to do without. It's the second show to have that problem, thought I'd let you guys know.