#45 - David Heinemeier Hansson // Ruby on Rails Creator and CTO at Basecamp and Hey

David Heinemeier-Hanson, CTO of Basecamp and Hey and creator of Ruby-on-Rails💎 blows us away yet again in this thought-provoking podcast about bootstrapping, scaling, remote work, and of course Ruby Learn insights into technical leadership from someone who has been leading a remote team since 2004 (hint: You are doing Slack and Zoom wrong), believes in async work, and loves the fact that his company doesn’t have an office 🏢. Plus, after 20 years of creating multi-million dollar SaaS products - he just made his first middle management hire!! 🤯 Listen to find out: - Why he waits to validate his product until after he has shipped a paid V1 to users. 🙊 - Why he capped his team size to 50 🧑‍💼- even if it meant reducing the product line 🙊 . - How he would start over in 2022 (e.g. bootstrap, SaaS, remote, small team, and use of toolkits). - Why he prefers to build Ruby-on-Rails as a byproduct, not as a focus. - Why he codes for ‘one-person-teams’. 👨‍💻 + His favorite productivity tip? He cut down Twitter by 97%