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Noah Kagan Presents

005: Jason Fried - Robots, watches and not sweating

Noah Kagan Presents

Noah Kagan

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2017

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Noah Kagan Presents I get the chance to sit down with Basecamp co-founder and CEO Jason Fried before "The Basecamp Way To Work" event at their office in Chicago. I ask all the juicy questions no one has asked him before such as how to future proof your kids against robots taking over the world, his presentation style, and much much more.

Show notes at http://okdork.com/podcast/5

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0:00.0

I think like we're going to tell computers what to do.

0:04.4

That seems like a very now thing.

0:06.6

I don't think in 20 years that's really what's going to be happening.

0:09.4

Welcome to Noah Kagan presents.

0:14.0

What's up everyone?

0:19.0

What's up everyone?

0:20.0

It's your boy, Noah Kagan, aka Rabbi Can't Lose, aka DJ PB, whatever nickname you want to give me,

0:26.4

but this guy has one name. A lot of you guys already know him, his name is Jason Freed.

0:31.7

And Jason runs 37 Signals, which is the main creators of base camp a lot of you guys used for project management

0:36.7

So they had a one day event how do we work and so literally imagine this for like 500 bucks you get to go see how they run their entire eight or nine figure business however big it is

0:47.6

Think about like who you would love to sit down to and literally like Zuckerberg or Bezos or like the guy who runs Ben and Jerry's I don't even care and you

0:55.2

get to learn how they run their business for a day for 500 bucks that is a steal.

0:59.5

What I was able to do is grab Jason ahead of the event, sat down, and I wanted to ask him all the questions he never has

1:06.3

been asked before.

1:07.3

A lot of you guys have heard different shows, or was an interview of going boring shit?

1:10.2

And I was like, that boars the hell out of me. So what we talked about I have a little bit of a

1:14.3

preview of it. We talked about how robots are going to take over the world and how do you

1:18.5

like help your kids not become a loser in that future and Jason had answers for that.

1:25.0

Talked about its presentation style because I spent months working on a presentation.

1:28.0

You might only hear me if you ever see me do a presentation for an hour, but I'll spend six

1:32.1

months working on it. Think about it. He only spends no time, so I thought there was some really interesting stuff there.

1:37.0

One thing about Jason, I thought was really fascinating, and he kept kind of saying this in passing, was thinking about how to build things that

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