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REWORK is a podcast about a better way to work and run your business, from 37signals — the makers of Basecamp and HEY. While the prevailing narrative around successful entrepreneurship tells you to scale fast and raise money, we think there’s a better way. We’ll take you behind the scenes at 37signals with co-founders Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson and bring you stories from business owners who have embraced bootstrapping, staying small, and growing slow.

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Troy Toman

EPISODE 0097 - SEPT 22, 2020

Something's Broken

with Jeremy Daer and Troy Toman

Basecamp recently suffered three outages in a week. Programming lead Jeremy Daer and director of operations Troy Toman come on the show to discuss their approach to customer communication around these kinds of incidents. They talk about public accountability, mental health, and why the human side of...

Basecamp Behind the Scenes, Running a Calm Company

EPISODE 0093 - JUL 28, 2020

Two Weeks

with Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson, Andrea LaRowe, Jonas Downey, Kristin Aardsma, Javan Makhmali, and others

Basecamp released its new email service, HEY, on June 15. It was supposed to be a calm, controlled product launch, but what followed was a period that CEO Jason Fried described as “chaotic, enthralling, (and) horrible.” Basecamp got into a public fight with Apple over the HEY iOS app and the...

HEY, Greatest Hits

EPISODE 0072 - FEB 18, 2020

Poetry at Work

with Leslie Villasenor Marchel, Laura Barkat, Don Share, Lexi Kent-Monning, Matthew Vincent, and Troy Toman

Some of our most famous poets had day jobs: Robert Burns was a tax collector; William Carlos Williams was a doctor; Audre Lorde was a librarian and professor. Poetry has a lot to say about work and can serve as a meeting place, a provocative memo, or a break from the daily grind. In this episode, we...

Just For Fun