{"id":22500,"date":"2023-12-18T00:44:16","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T04:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/?p=22500"},"modified":"2023-12-18T14:53:26","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T18:53:26","slug":"big-chicago-entrepreneurship-vibe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/big-chicago-entrepreneurship-vibe\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Chicago Entrepreneurship Vibe"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u2066\u202a@37signals\u202c\u2069<\/a> Listen now 👇<\/p>\n

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.@37signals is a very different kind of company:<\/div>\n
\u2192 They make tens of millions in profit each year<\/div>\n
\u2192 With fewer than 80 employees<\/div>\n
\u2192 No investors, no board<\/div>\n
\u2192 No growth goals<\/div>\n
\u2192 No experiments<\/div>\n
\u2192 No sales, no marketing spend<\/div>\n
\u2192 Teams are two max 2 people (1 eng, 1 design)<\/div>\n
\u2192 They prioritize gut over data<\/div>\n
\u2192 They prioritize profit over growth<\/div>\n
\u2192 They’ve been profitable for 24 years straight<\/div>\n
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In my conversation with @jasonfried, we explore his contrarian approach to building a company:<\/div>\n
🔸 Prioritizing profit above all else<\/div>\n
🔸 Why work should not feel like war<\/div>\n
🔸 Why, and how, to foster a gut-driven culture<\/div>\n
🔸 The \u201cShape Up\u201d framework for building products<\/div>\n
🔸 The downsides of raising VC<\/div>\n
🔸 Advice for bootstrapping your business<\/div>\n
🔸 A peek at Once, their new product line<\/div>\n
🔸 Much more<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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    Lenny Rachitsky \u2066\u202a@lennysan\u202c\u2069 \u2066\u202a@37signals\u202c\u2069 Listen now 👇 YouTube: youtu.be\/dAnF0tk0di8 Spotify: open.spotify.com\/episode\/2bOWmO\u2026 Apple: podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/jas\u2026   12\/17\/23, 12:18 PM     .@37signals is a very different kind of company: \u2192 They make tens of millions in profit each year \u2192 With fewer than 80 employees \u2192 No investors, no board \u2192 No growth goals \u2192 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deep-underground-capital-knowledge","category-entrepreneurship"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22521,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22500\/revisions\/22521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}