Ep. 284: Jason Fried Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

My guest today is Jason Fried, the co-founder and President of 37signals, a privately-held Chicago-based company committed to building the best web-based tools possible with the least number of features necessary.

The topic is his book Rework.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

• The first dollar Fried made online and other formative experiences
• Keeping business simple
• Making something more valuable than the dollars people give you
• The intimacy of exchanging money
• The idea of doing less than your competitors to beat them
• Building an audience
• The “real world”
• Why an MBA program might not teach you much about entrepreneurism
• Corporate structure
• Focusing on what will not change
• Zen and the moment of right now
• Not focusing too far into the future
• Fried’s experience with Jeff Bezos
• Idea of improvisation or “winging it” in business

Jump in!

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I’m MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I’m proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.

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