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

Are 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? I feel like I can rule the world, I know I can be what I want to I put my all in it like my day song on a bolest street. When you are introducing yourself, what 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 audience. If I'm talking to a bunch of car nerds, I talk about winning Lamont. If I talk to a bunch of programmers, it's all about Ruby and Rails. And if it's a bunch of Entrepreneurs, it's usually about building base camp and thirty seven signals. So did you have you ever said base camps revenue?

No, we've never disclosed the full revenues nor full profits. Um I think 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 we 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 niche, but category of software.

And it just Took a decade until anyone else woke up to the idea that This could be a good business and then we have competition. So um Very much enjoy the privilege of being a US private company and not having to disclose it.

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