Jason Fried is co-founder and president of 37Signals, a privately-held Chicago company committed to building the best Web-based tools with the least number of features necessary.
37Signals' products include Basecamp, Highrise, Backpack, Campfire, and Writeboard. The company also developed and open-sourced the Ruby on Rails programming framework. 37Signals' products do less
than the competition - intentionally.
Jason believes that there's real value and beauty in the basics. Elegance, respect for the desire to simply get stuff done, and honest ease of use
are the hallmarks of 37Signals products.