Pioneers of Europe: David Heinemeier Hansson 🇩🇰
The danish Dynamite on Race-"Rails" and the founder of Basecamp
Read Time: 2.30 Minutes
This is 'Pioneers of Europe' from the Jupiter Dispatch, the monthly feature highlighting european entrepreneurs, exciting startups, and stories of the greats from the old continent.
DHH... or in full David Heinemeier Hansson is one of the most interesting europeans who ever conquered the Bay Area.
In his early years he invented a whole new programming framework called Ruby-on-Rails, which is a fast track to code web apps and more. Some of the most famous companies used Ruby to their success like Github, Shopify, Airbnb, Square, Twitch and Zendesk, just to name a few.
In addition DHH started several businesses including famous Basecamp, Hey and an investing firm called 37signals.
I don't know how the hell he is doing all this gigs at once just being 44 years of age.
In addition to that, he also runs a great podcast and published several great books on entrepreneurship.
But his most fun hobby at all is race driving. In the past he even started at the 24 hours of Le Mans...🏎
Just like the smart car above, DHH is proof that you not necessarily need infinite resources like Google to build something meaningful.
So you should definitely listen up when that man speaks & learn from him...
The following posting of him and his also famous business partner Jason Fried shows his contrarian approach in terms of thinking.
He doesn’t think that you should scale a company big, he doesn’t think, like above, you should use venture capital. Instead he comes up with great arguments why you should take your profits private instead of investing again, like in the following…
You may follow some pomodoro timer, productivity "Gurus" on YouTube. Stop it!
Just learn from a man who is the real deal when it comes to being effective. (his Podcast & Books)
DHH is definitely a person from Europe you should know. I love his thinking on what it means to be an entrepreneur and on what KPIs you should measure your success.
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