<story><title>37signals Earns Millions Each Year. Its CEO’s Model? His Cleaning Lady</title><url>http://www.fastcompany.com/3000852/37signals-earns-millions-each-year-its-ceo%E2%80%99s-model-his-cleaning-lady</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Jd</author><text>&quot;To me that’s far more interesting than a tech company that’s hiring a bunch of people, just got their fourth round of financing for 12 million dollars, and they’re still losing money. That’s what everyone talks about as being exciting, but I think that’s an absolutely disgusting scenario when it comes to business.&quot;&lt;p&gt;Hilarious given that Jason Fried was on the board of directors of Groupon (his comments on this &quot;disgusting scenario&quot; here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2617160&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2617160&lt;/a&gt;).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>klochner</author><text>Jason made it pretty clear that he was joining the Groupon board:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  * as a personal favor to Andrew Mason
  * to get some board experience 
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
He emphasized:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  * he had not changed his stance on bootstrapping companies
  * his board involvement was not an endorsement of groupon
  * he sold his shares when given the chance
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
So I guess I&apos;m missing the hilarity, other than seeing you try to pick another fight with Jason Fried.</text></comment>
<story><title>37signals Earns Millions Each Year. Its CEO’s Model? His Cleaning Lady</title><url>http://www.fastcompany.com/3000852/37signals-earns-millions-each-year-its-ceo%E2%80%99s-model-his-cleaning-lady</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Jd</author><text>&quot;To me that’s far more interesting than a tech company that’s hiring a bunch of people, just got their fourth round of financing for 12 million dollars, and they’re still losing money. That’s what everyone talks about as being exciting, but I think that’s an absolutely disgusting scenario when it comes to business.&quot;&lt;p&gt;Hilarious given that Jason Fried was on the board of directors of Groupon (his comments on this &quot;disgusting scenario&quot; here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2617160&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2617160&lt;/a&gt;).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>twelvedigits</author><text>I think you&apos;re overestimating the influence of board members. You can judge him based on how he runs his company, not how he participates on one company&apos;s board. That&apos;s &quot;do as I do.&quot;</text></comment>