No politics at Basecamp ... a personal view

Basecamp, the company, is my inspiration - so this is very personal

I discovered Ruby on Rails in 2005. And through that discovery, I started reading "Signal Vs Noise" - the blog of a company called 37Signals (now called Basecamp). I was hooked.

In fact, because of Ruby on Rails and because of 37Signals, by 2007, I had quit my job and started my own business. Just like 37Signals, I believed that there was a better w…