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The Cashflow King: “Here’s How I Do It”, Negotiating w/ Jeff Bezos, Elon’s Cracked Rocket - Jason Fried

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I got four words for you. Self funded Cash cow. That is what today's guest, Jason Freed, has built He's got this company, thirty seven signals. It's been around for I don't know, twenty five y years. And they're very hush hush about their numbers.

But the only thing he's ever said is that they make tens of millions of profit a year and have been doing that for a long time. In fact The investor Jason Lemkin once said that the two greatest self funded cash cow companies he's ever seen Our Craigslist. And thirty seven signals.

And even better, they do this without setting any goals. They work only four days a week during the summers and they spend next to nothing on marketing. And so I was dying to ask Jason three questions. And that's what we did in this episode. I said, How did you build this low stress lifestyle company? That has no goals and no long term plans. How do you do that as a CEO? The second thing I asked him was

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