Oh my god this has to be a troll, right? Basecamp was just kidding. They're probably not even a $1B business. They made some great tech but this is very misleading.
I honestly wish HackerNews would just eliminate certain sources of links. Medium and YouTube would be a great start.
Or at least make it that if someone on HN doesn’t have a karma score of 100 or something, then they can’t submit links from those two sites and a handful of others. There has to be a cutoff that aligns with some measure of common sense. Or maybe the operators of HN are just thrilled to get as much UGC as possible, even if they are crappy links that detract from otherwise healthy use of the site.
I don’t click on any article posted at Medium no matter how “important” it might seem.
FWIW, the reference to BaseCamp being worth $100 billion is from a 2015 post by Friedman mocking the whole “valuation” concept by allowing a few people to invest a $1 in Basecamp at some micro percentage of shares.
Hopefully no one would actually scan that headline and believe it without reading it. That would be rather ignorant of money. Basecamp is a tiny company and only a few companies in the world are “worth” $100 billion.
The fun of Medium and YouTube. Links to Twitter and Reddit ought to be excluded too. If we wanted to follow the fluff on those services, we can sign up there and do so. HN ought to be reserved for independent blogs, tech announcements, company dev blogs, funding and innovation news from reliable sources, and random oddball stuff.
