184 - Taking Risks — with Jason Fried
The Futur with Chris Do
The Futur
4.9 • 998 Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2022
⏱️ 77 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'll figure it out is how I've always thought about things. I don't have a lot of confidence going into something |
| 0:05.1 | other than knowing that the confidence is I will figure it out. And if I don't, again, I'm not putting myself |
| 0:10.8 | at risk, so it's okay. |
| 0:12.8 | And so it's a couple of those things together |
| 0:14.3 | that gives me the confidence to try something new. I'm going to do. |
| 0:23.0 | Do you know? |
| 0:24.0 | And, |
| 0:25.0 | do you know do you |
| 0:26.0 | do |
| 0:27.0 | and and and and and |
| 0:28.0 | uh... uh... |
| 0:31.0 | uh... I just want to tell you I have a lot of a mixed emotions docking to you right now so I'm going to just try and be chill here |
| 0:47.3 | I'm excited. I'm inspired by you. I'm intimidated by you and I have to just confess something a lot of my thinking it has been directly a lift from what you've written in your books |
| 0:57.2 | So when you when I don't know how it happened when we exchange information I was like I can't believe we're even going to talk right now. |
| 1:03.5 | So I'm like, whoa, deep breath. All right, so not admiration here. |
| 1:08.0 | Well, I have loads of respect for what you're doing and I wish I was as good as you |
| 1:12.4 | at what you do. and I wish I was as good as you at what you do so please |
| 1:14.0 | we're just two people talking here both are maybe good at something. |
| 1:18.8 | We're good at something I think yeah let's hope so. Now this might be crazy, but in case somebody doesn't know who you are, can you |
| 1:27.1 | introduce yourself and then tell us a little story about who you are? Yeah, sure. So my name is Jason Freed and I started a company almost 23 years ago, originally called 37 signals and you just interviewed one of my co-founder, Carlos Segura, a few weeks ago, I think it was. |
| 1:44.8 | And we were a web design company and we were doing that for a number of years and then we got |
| 1:50.5 | pretty busy and we couldn't manage all the work we were doing with the tools that we were using. |
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