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This Week in Startups

E1099: Basecamp Co-Founder Jason Fried on building Hey, making email exciting again, Hey vs. Apple & more

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2020

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Check out Hey: https://hey.com

FOLLOW Jason Fried: https://twitter.com/jasonfried
FOLLOW Jason Calacanis: https://linktr.ee/calacanis

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Hey everybody,

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everybody, welcome to this week in startups.

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I'm really excited about our next guest, Jason Freed is with us.

0:51.0

You know him as the co-founder along with my good friend David Hanmeyer

0:55.9

Hansen who's had two amazing episodes of this podcast over the years. We've had great

1:02.4

discussions and they co-founded

1:04.6

Bascamp together back in I think 99 and they have a new product that just

1:09.1

came out called Hey.com that's taking the interwebs by storm. I've been trying to have Jason on the pot I don't know we've

1:15.3

been talking about this for five or six years in the making but here we are how is everything going

1:19.7

in the pandemic I'm I'm you in Canada Chicago I don't know where you are. I'm in Chicago, yeah.

1:24.8

Chicago has been pretty rough. Yeah. Like every place, you know, and certainly many people have

1:30.5

it far worse, but we've been home just kind of doing

1:33.5

our thing wearing the masks and staying out of the public basically as much as we

1:36.5

can we got two young kids so it's challenging you know for them and for us and you

1:40.9

know sucks yeah and it does feel like other countries have figured out

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