How we pay people at Basecamp

There are no negotiated salaries or raises at Basecamp. Everyone in the same role at the same level is paid…

Enough

The underpinning tenet of chasing exponential growth is that anything less than “all of it” is never enough. If there’s more possible, more out…

The deal Jeff Bezos got on Basecamp

In 2006, Jeff Bezos bought a minority, no-control stake of Basecamp from Jason and me. We didn’t…

We’ve been plugging away this summer on a wide variety of improvements on Basecamp 3. While there have been a ton of improvements on the iOS and Android side as well, this post will focus on some of the larger improvements to the web/desktop version.

A few of us at Basecamp were recently discussing how decisions get made to “green light” new projects, and I came to the conclusion that it boils down a simple rule:

If you can make a decision and…

A few years back, I did an extended Q&A session at Techstars Chicago. Great group, great questions. I really enjoyed it.

Before the talk, Troy, the guy who ran Techstars Chicago at the time, showed me this board they had propped up on an easel outside the…