Thirty7 Signals

design shop and WebApp builder/hoster

http://www.37signals.com/

creators of BaseCamp, BackPack, and TadaList

Who are 37signals? Jason Fried, Ryan Singer, Sam Stephenson and Marcel Molina in Chicago; Matt Linderman in NYC, David Heinemeier Hansson in Copenhagen, and Mr. Jamis Buck in Provo, Utah.

What's their approach to Scalability?

• http://jobs.37signals.com/jobs/356

• more details?

Authors of Getting Real about their model of Product Development

Timeline/history

• founded 1999 as Web Design company
• by end-2003 Jason Fried was only original founder left
• Defensive Design For The Web published 2004
• BaseCamp launched Feb'2004
• Ruby On Rails released Open Source 2004
• TadaList launched Jan'2005
• Still doing 37express Web Design Mar'2005
• BackPack launched May'2005
• WriteBoard launched Oct'2005
• Jeff Bezos investment 2006
• Getting Real published 2006
• CampFire launched Feb'2006
• High-Rise launched Mar'2007
• Re-Work published 2010
• Remote (Distributed Team) published Oct'2013
• start selling off most products, rename the company BaseCamp Feb'2014