Hey.com’s founder reinvents email & battles Apple

Jason Fried, Hey.com, SaaS (software as a service)

This interview covers how Jason Fried’s company created Hey.com without user feedback, and why he says he’ll never give Apple a cut of its sales….even if Apple follows through on a threat to boot its iPhone app.

Jason Fried

Hey.com

Jason Fried is the founder of Basecamp project management software and author of multiple business books, including Remote. His latest creation is Hey, an email account that reduces clutter and increases privacy.

Andrew Warner 0:04
Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner, I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses for an audience of entrepreneurs. And joining me is someone who just decided that he’s going to take on Gmail and outlook and all these other companies with an email product that that does everything differently. I’ve gotten to use it. I’m so proud of one of the first users of this new email platform. It’s called Hey, h. e y.com. And the founder, of course, is Jason freed. Most of you know him as the creator of Basecamp. I always revered him as the guy who created getting real, which is this book that so many of us are somebody who software software makers that we admire today have read and helped them minimize their their their feature list and create software that people love in this new software as a service world. I invited him here to think about how how he came up with this new approach and what kind of...

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