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Jason is a designer by trade, and is routinely involved with the design of 37signals' products. In the same vein, DHH is a partner in the company, but still wri

Jason is a designer by trade, and is routinely involved with the design of 37signals' products. In the same vein, DHH is a partner in the company, but still writes code (as I understand it).

jasonfried 15y ago
To clarify... "President" isn't a title I use, it's a title often ascribed to me as the founder of the company. Whenever anyone asks for my title I tell them we don't have titles. If they require one for whatever they are writing, I say you can say president or founder if that works, but I'd prefer if they didn't say anything other than founder since founder isn't a title as much as it is a fact. Re: design. Yes, I design. It's the primary thing I do. Design, sketch, work on product simplification, design/think about user experience, etc. DHH still codes as well (he's working on some nice enhancements to Highrise right now, in fact). Both David and I would prefer to design and code all day, but it's not always possible. Lately it's been more possible so we've bee doing it more often.
- abuzzooz 15y ago
  > To clarify... "President" isn't a title I use, it's a title often ascribed to me as the founder of the company. I apologize if I got things wrong. I was just going with whatever is here: http://37signals.com/about http://37signals.com/about "Jason Fried is the co-founder and President of 37signals." and "Jason co-wrote all of 37signals books, and is invited to speak around the world on entrepreneurship, design, management, and software." with that kind of workload, I assumed you wouldn't have enough time for anything else. I never said whatever you do is useless. Far from it. Non-technical work that is focused at growing a company is more important than any technical work. After all, what can you do with an insanely great product that you can't sell because you didn't prepare for it properly?
  - jasonfried 15y ago
    Good catch there. Gonna pull that president mention. Re: speaking. Not speaking anymore. Really enjoying getting back to product design.

Jason is a designer by trade, and is routinely involved with the design of 37signals' products. In the same vein, DHH is a partner in the company, but still writes code (as I understand it).

jasonfried 15y ago

To clarify... "President" isn't a title I use, it's a title often ascribed to me as the founder of the company. Whenever anyone asks for my title I tell them we don't have titles. If they require one for whatever they are writing, I say you can say president or founder if that works, but I'd prefer if they didn't say anything other than founder since founder isn't a title as much as it is a fact. Re: design. Yes, I design. It's the primary thing I do. Design, sketch, work on product simplification, design/think about user experience, etc. DHH still codes as well (he's working on some nice enhancements to Highrise right now, in fact). Both David and I would prefer to design and code all day, but it's not always possible. Lately it's been more possible so we've bee doing it more often.

abuzzooz 15y ago
> To clarify... "President" isn't a title I use, it's a title often ascribed to me as the founder of the company. I apologize if I got things wrong. I was just going with whatever is here: http://37signals.com/about http://37signals.com/about "Jason Fried is the co-founder and President of 37signals." and "Jason co-wrote all of 37signals books, and is invited to speak around the world on entrepreneurship, design, management, and software." with that kind of workload, I assumed you wouldn't have enough time for anything else. I never said whatever you do is useless. Far from it. Non-technical work that is focused at growing a company is more important than any technical work. After all, what can you do with an insanely great product that you can't sell because you didn't prepare for it properly?
- jasonfried 15y ago
  Good catch there. Gonna pull that president mention. Re: speaking. Not speaking anymore. Really enjoying getting back to product design.