37Signals, 1 Big New Investor: Jeff Bezos
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37signals, the little-software-outfit-that-could and prolific producer of popular collaborative services such as Basecamp and Backpack, has its first venture investor: Bezos Expeditions, the personal investing firm of Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos. As 37signals founder and President Jason Fried explains:
I haven't talked with Bezos, but I think I know what interested him in 37signals. He has long been a fan of what he calls two-pizza teams, those small enough be fed by two pizzas. He thinks that's about the right size for any new project. That fits right in with Fried's "less is more" philosophy.