DHH: $100M+ Advice That'll Piss Off Every Business Guru
3/17/20261 hr 18 min
Get Sam's guide to run your life like a $100M biz: https://clickhubspot.com/kdmv Episode 806: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to David Heinemeier Hansson ( https://x.com/dhh ) about AI, being wrong in public, and taking on Apple. — Show Notes: (0:00) How to stand out (7:48) not giving a damn (9:57) liquid vs crystalized intelligence (12:03) constraints breed creativity (18:18) being publicly wrong (24:27) taste vs data (33:25) Being in awe of Shopify (41:05) how David uses AI (47:49) What won't work today (51:23) who David admires (1:00:13) Longevity decisions (1:07:09) Taking on the App Store and Google — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com • Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC • I run all my newsletters on Beehiiv and you should too + we're giving away $10k to our favorite newsletter, check it out: beehiiv.com/mfm-challenge — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com • Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth • Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/ My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano /
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First 90 secondsSam Parr· Host0:00
Are you able to give any ballpark for previous numbers?
David Heinemeier Hansson· Guest0:02
Let's just say ridiculous.
Sam Parr· Host0:04
Okay [laughs].
David Heinemeier Hansson· Guest0:04
I think that's a, that's a good ballpark, right?
Speaker 20:06
[singing] I feel like I could rule the world. I know I could be what I want to. Uh, I put my all in it like no days off. On the road less traveled never took the path.
Sam Parr· Host0:14
When you are introducing yourselves, what do you even say? Because you've done so many different things that I don't even know, like, what you take credit for most or what you, like, hang your hat on.
David Heinemeier Hansson· Guest0:23
Well, it all depends on the audience. If I'm talking to a bunch of car nerds, I talk about winning Le Mans. [laughs] If I talk to a bunch of programmers, it's all about Ruby on Rails, and if it's a bunch of entrepreneurs, it's usually about building Basecamp and 37signals. So- Did you-- Have you ever said Basecamp's revenue? No. We've never disclosed the full revenues nor full profits. Um, I think we've said tens of millions or something. I don't even know. That's one of the great privileges of being a private company. It certainly served us well for many, many years when we had the entire project management space in SaaS to ourselves, and we were laughing all the way to the bank because clearly someone else must have realized this was a highly profitable, not even niche, but category of software, and it just took a decade until anyone else woke up to the idea that this could be a good business, and then we had competition. So, um, very much enjoy the privilege of being a US private company and not having to disclose a goddamn thing.
Shaan Puri· Host1:25
[laughs] Sam, have you ever been to... So if you go to 37signals