The It's a Monkey Podcast interviews technology thought leaders from all over the world and provides a weekly overview of the latest news from the tech economy.
Episode 79
CTO and co-founder of Basecamp
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Podcast Hosts:
- Kevin Garber - CEO & Co-founder - ManageFlitter
- Kate Frappell - Design Lead - ManageFlitter
Guest Interview:
Kevin talks with David Heinemeier Hansson, CTO and co-founder at Basecamp, creator of Ruby on Rails, best-selling author of REWORK and REMOTE and a Le Mans class-winning racing driver! David is also author of the articles Reconsider and The Day I become a millionaire.
Basecamp is a web-based project management tool that was launched in 2004 and has over 100 000 paying customers. Basecamp received no seed funding and was entirely bootstrapped. Jeff Bezos - the founder of Amazon - acquired a minority stake in Basecamp in 2006.
Basecamp is a web-based project management tool that was launched in 2004 and has over 100 000 paying customers. Basecamp received no seed funding and was entirely bootstrapped. Jeff Bezos - the founder of Amazon - acquired a minority stake in Basecamp in 2006.
David discusses bootstrapping vs raising venture money when starting a business and offers advice to those wanting to build a business by bootstrapping. He gives his opinion on Donald Trump and the tech industry's approach to working with Trump. David also shares useful life tips like using negative visualisation to deal with uncertainty around the future.
This Week in the Tech News:
- WhatsApp testing letting users recall and edit sent messages.
- Thinnest-ever temporary tattoo like health sensor developed that is capable of health monitoring with similar precision provided by much bulkier equipment.
- Researchers create low-cost wearable wireless hydration sensor that can detect dehydration before it poses a problem.
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