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I remember interviewing with them about 2-3 years ago. Everyone seemed very enthused, but no one was able to clearly articulate for me what it was that made their product/offerings different.

Glad I dodged that bullet

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Kind of a shame that yet another one of the few startups pushing for a four day work week turns out to be run by incompetents (Treehouse), and another founder who challenges the VC establishment turns out to be a two-faced charlatan (Basecamp).

4 day week is simply a PR effort. I have been following the company on LinkedIn and even the current CEO put out "words of wisdom" and he likes them himself.. weird

Not to derail this thread but what’s two faced and charlatan about JF/DHH? Or are you referring to someone else?

Pretty sure this is referring to the situation last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27000945

Seconded. It’s surprising to hear Basecamp referred to in such a manner. Did something happen?

The whole brouhaha that led to a mass exodus. I don’t know the specifics, but to alienate such a substantial amount of a workforce after decades of pontificating on the proper way to build company culture shows that the wisdom they were hocking ain’t what it’s cracked up to be.

ceo gives off Jim Jones vibes.

Indeed. Someone linked this Forbes profile of him in a post yesterday:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenbertoni/2022/04/04/meet-t...

This looks like a parody straight out of the show Silicon Valley.

Wow. This is priceless. A longform recap of the infamous Dave Morin interview.

> After sunset, he avoids electric lights and screens because they disrupt his sleep. Instead, he lights candles and plays a buffalo-skin drum (he made it himself with the help of a local indigenous tribe) to wind down before bed.

Hah, yes. Every so often I still read this for a laugh:

https://jesuschristsiliconvalley-blog.tumblr.com/post/465392...

But yeah, oh boy, this guy took Dave Morin and said "Him. He's my role model."

“That’s Ryan. He’s a Gen Z entrepreneur unsatisfied with the order of the world, and he wants to change it,”

Lolololololololololo

Same here! I just looked back through my emails to see if it was the same "Bolt" I remembered.

I always imagined it being a much smaller startup, not an $11B valuation. And it seems the market has backed me up on that.

I interviewed for them 6 months ago. At the time I was super sad that I failed my system design interview, which is what killed my chances. But man oh man am I glad now.

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