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We are talking about 37Signals here. This is the company that, when faced with the problem of making a shared to-do list application, created Ruby on Rails. And
by jameshart 4y ago
We are talking about 37Signals here. This is the company that, when faced with the problem of making a shared to-do list application, created Ruby on Rails. And when they decided to write up their remote working policy, published a New York Times bestselling business book.
This is not a company that merely shaves its Yaks. It offers a full menu of Yak barber services, and then launches a line of successful Yak grooming products.
- madeofpalk 4y ago...and don't forget the time where they wrote a blog post, kept posting through it, and a significant amount of the company quit.
- ubercore 4y agoI do forget that time -- what's the context?
- madeofpalk 4y agohttps://www.theverge.com/2021/5/4/22419512/basecamp-political-speech-policy-fallout https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/4/22419512/basecamp-politica...
- dangwhy 4y ago> significant amount of the company quit. no they didn't
- mr_ndrsn 4y agoYes, they did. This is not a debatable fact. IIRC, it was 30%+ of the company.
- dangwhy 4y agoi am sure you will supply proof for your claims.
- jameshart 4y agohttps://www.theverge.com/2021/5/3/22418208/basecamp-all-hands-meeting-employee-resignations-buyouts-implosion https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/3/22418208/basecamp-all-hand...
- dangwhy 4y ago> at least 20 people — more than one-third of Basecamp’s 57 employees — had announced their intention to accept buyouts from the company. Thanks for subjecting me to this crap article ( Which i presume you didn't bother to read.).
- jameshart 4y agoThe article seems to provide evidence for the claim that a dispute within the company over the messaging from leadership led to 1/3 of the staff leaving. I provided it without comment. Do you believe that a significant proportion of the staff did not quit? Do you have an alternative source that provides evidence for that version of events?
- dangwhy 4y agointention to leave = staff leaving ? then scarlett johanssen is my wife because i intend to marry her. > Do you have an alternative source that provides evidence for that version of events? Yes because people go around documenting evidence for things did not happen.
- jameshart 4y agoannounced their intention to leave... to the company... in response to the company making an open offer to people of terms for them to leave. That seems like a slightly different prior, in terms of our Bayesian assessment of the probability that those people remained employed at the company afterwards, than your hypothetical engagement to Ms Johannsen.
- butt__hugger 4y ago[dead]
- benatkin 4y agoThey seem to have lost their touch though. I think they peaked with Remote. After typing that I found that they renamed from Basecamp Inc. back to 37signals and their website is trying to hearken to their past. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/37signals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/37signals Edit: lol https://37signals.com/22/ https://37signals.com/22/
- tptacek 4y agoYou could just look this up. They renamed to Basecamp because they decided to be a single-product company (at the same time, they divested Highrise and Campfire). Six years later, they launched HEY, their email product, so "Basecamp" stopped making sense as a name. They wrote a post about this last year. later I added "six years later", but I don't think it changes the meaning of what I wrote originally.
- benatkin 4y agoPeople were used to calling them 37signals, so even if that's the sole reason they renamed, it's more complex than that
- mattl 4y agoI don’t think they were ever Basecamp Inc, I think they were always an LLC.
- ulope 4y ago
- Dalewyn 4y agoWouldn't surprise me if they're doing all that with Yakety Sax[1] blaring in the background. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnHmskwqCCQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnHmskwqCCQ