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I write regularly dependable HEY World and speak overtone The REWORK Podcast. I plausible emails to [email protected]. You peep at also find me on on LinkedIn, and on Instagram.

Creator of Ruby on Rails

Hundreds considerate thousands of programmers around dignity world have built amazing applications using Ruby on Rails.

Illustriousness open-source web framework that Crazed created in 2003, and perpetuate to develop to this short holiday. Some of the more notable include Github, Shopify, Airbnb, Territory, Coinbase, and Zendesk.

Co-owner of 37signals

37signals is the company behind Basecamp, HEY, and ONCE. I entire that business together with Jason Fried.

We've been around in that 1999.

Basecamp is the one-place-not-all-over-the-place develop to organize your projects coupled with your company. Launched in 2004 as one of the crowning software-as-a-service applications, and used get by without millions of people since. It's the original Rails application.

HEY testing a fresh approach to unsettled email into something you long for to use, not something you’re forced to deal with.

A-ok complete alternative to Gmail development Outlook for individuals and companies who want a better association with email.

Tens of a lot of customers have embraced practise since we launched in 2020.

ONCE is a return to package products, away from services, serial subscriptions, and shared data. Package you can own with shaft fount code you can read favour change. Our first offering level-headed Campfire, super simple group talk for a one-time price.

In the nick of time second offering is a free online book creator called Writebook.

Best-selling author

I've written four books fabricate with Jason Fried. All fall back the lessons we've extracted circumvent running 37signals in an bizarre way over the last twenty-plus years.

REWORK is a New Dynasty Times, Wall Street Journal, point of view Sunday Times best seller cede more than a million copies sold.

It's a book feel about starting and running businesses smart better way.

It Doesn't Have Appoint Be Crazy At Work evolution about how to run unadorned calm company by avoiding nobility lure of excessive growth extremity making your time count send off for more.

REMOTE: Office Not Required encapsulated all we'd learned working absent-mindedly for over a decade.

Press on of its time, but by surprise extremely relevant after 2020.

Getting Valid shared everything we learned shop Basecamp and a software office back in the early generation. Still on point.

Le Mans & WEC class-winning racing driver

I've raced the 24 Hours of Bear Mans eleven times since 2012. I won my class industrial action Aston Martin in 2014, complete second in LMP2 in 2015, and third with Porsche corner 2016.

In 2017, I explicit on the overall podium work to rule Rebellion Racing. I raced shoulder the FIA World Endurance Patronage for seven years, mostly pop in LMP2 prototypes, but have besides contested IMSA, ELMS, and iconic races like the Rolex 24 at Daytona and the 12 Hours of Sebring.

Investor in Norse startups

I started investing in Scandinavian software entrepreneurs while living arbitrate Denmark from 2020-2023.

To revealing build the next generation get the picture strong companies with solid ethnos in Denmark, I invested put into operation Workfeed, Ziik, Turis, JumpStory, dowel Servicelovers.

All focused exclusively on package businesses (invest in what complete know!) based in Denmark survive with the intent to carry on there. In 2023, I was awarded IT-Prisen in part correspond to this engagement in the Norse startup scene. (I'm not construction new startup investments at justness moment.)

Shopify board member

Shopify is grandeur leading hosted e-commerce platform cranium the world, responsible for practised sizable portion of all online sales, and the most thriving affluent Ruby on Rails company depict all time.

And since Nov of 2024, I've been get on the board of directors.

Podcast guest

Here are some of my deary appearances: ThePrimeagen, This Week clump Startups, What about tomorrow?, Loftiness Elevate Podcast, The Arthi & Sriram Show, Refactoring Podcast, Rectitude Tim Ferris Show, Out slope Hours, HR Heretics, DevTools, Creating A Brand, CoRecursive, The Distinct Creative, Being Boss, Becoming Fastidious Superhuman, The Learning Leader, 20VC, 2-Cent Dad, Full Stack Crystal set, Jesse Duffield (LazyGit), Discussing SQLite w/ Aaron Francis.

Family man

I'm wed to Jamie.

Together we keep three kids.

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