DHH: $100M+ Advice That'll Piss Off Every Business Guru

0:00Are you able to give any ballpark for previous numbers? Let's just say ridiculous. I think that's a that's a good ballpark, right? When you are introducing yourselves,

0:14what do you even say? Because you've done so many different things that I don't even know like what you take credit for most or what you like hang your hat on. Well, it all depends on the

0:21audience. If I'm talking to a bunch of car nerds, I talk about winning Le Mans. If I talk to a bunch of programmers, it's all about Ruby on Rails. And if it's a bunch of

0:30entrepreneurs, it's usually about building Basecamp and 37signals. So, Did you Have you ever said Basecamp's revenue? No, we've never disclosed the full revenues nor full profits. Um, I

0:41think we've said tens of millions or something. I don't even know. That's one of the great privileges of being a private company. It certainly served us well for many, many years when

0:50we had the entire project management space in SaaS to ourselves. And we were laughing all the way to the bank because clearly someone else must have realized this was a highly profitable, not even