37Signals has always been a different sort of a company. 15 years of existence has seen it launch a plethora of products and also create (and later open source) the immensely popular Ruby on Rails ...

Spend an hour talking to 37signals CEO Jason Fried, and you’ll find yourself drawn into his fixation on three frustrating facts about productivity tools today: They’re boring. They’re complicated.

37Signals is not a company that makes its policy or management decisions quietly. So when 37Signals decided to pull its seven cloud-based apps off Amazon Web Services in the fall of 2022, it didn’t do ...

Software firm 37signals estimates that it saved $2 million on its cloud bill this year after its cloud repatriation project. The company's CTO and co-owner, David Heinemeier Hansson (AKA, DHH), posted ...

One of my favorite themes to explore on this blog has been how the modern office setup kills creativity and innovation. But silly me, one of my arguments has been that our instant availability via ...

But here’s the kicker: Business has never been better, so it’s not as if this were some kind of forced retrenchment. Fried says he simply had a realization that quality and culture would probably ...

Software firm 37signals has begun moving its data stored on Amazon Web Services' (AWS) Simple Storage Solution (S3) out of the cloud. 37signals CTO David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) posted on LinkedIn ...

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37signals, the software company that specializes in office productivity and development tools, has accepted a venture capital investment from Bezos Expeditions, the personal investment company of Jeff ...

Jason Fried (left) and David Heinemeier Hansson of 37signals helped develop much of the software that has enabled Web 2.0. * Photo: Jessica Wynne * To the 300 software developers packed into a ...

At 37signals, a company with just eight employees whose Web-based collaboration software is used by thousands of small businesses, there isn’t time to sit around a conference room sipping latte and ...

It's the kind of outcome most entrepreneurs only dream of. Last September, the financial-planning startup Mint.com was acquired by Intuit for $170 million—earning its founder a reported $20 million.