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People who have inspired us

Last saved by Basecamp on April 7, 2012

The crew at 37signals (the people behind Basecamp) are a diverse bunch from all over the world. We've been inspired by all sorts of people over the years.

Here's a list of some those we look up to, in no particular order:

  • Kathy Sierra
  • Edward Tufte
  • Richard Feynmann
  • Frank Lloyd Wright
  • Jonathan Ive
  • Jacob Nielsen
  • Christopher Alexander
  • Sally Menke
  • Phil Knight
  • Clayton Christensen
  • Lee Clow
  • Anne Carson
  • William Eggleston
  • Edward Land
  • Kent Beck
  • Shigeru Miyamoto
  • Mindy Kaling
  • Dean Kamen
  • Rick Olson
  • Haruki Murakami
  • Ernest Shackleton
  • Liz Phair
  • Neal Stephenson
  • Andy Law
  • Steve Prefontaine
  • Tina Fey
  • Michael Jordan
  • Carl Sagan
  • Ed Catmull
  • Terence Malick
  • Sol LeWitt
  • Jim Henson
  • Vladimir Nabokov
  • Judith Sheindlin
  • Dieter Rams
  • Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Amy Franceschini
  • Lawrence Lessig
  • Paul Rand
  • Joshua Davis
  • Shel Silverstein
  • Jim Davis
  • Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • John Coltrane
  • Doug Engelbart
  • Hayao Miyazaki
  • Steve Jobs
  • Nikola Tesla
  • John Carmack
  • Wangari Maathai
  • Andrew Vachss
  • Ronda Rousey
  • Bill Nye
  • John Cobb
  • J.J. Gibson
  • Les Paul
  • Mario Batali
  • John Allspaw
  • Bill Atkinson
  • Fred Rogers
  • Richard Stallman
  • Italo Calvino
  • Gary Larson
  • Ruth Westheimer
  • Paul Graham
  • David Ogilvy
  • Charlie Parker
  • Eric Evans
  • Buckminster Fuller
  • Jeff Bezos
  • Ann Marie MacDonald
  • Robert C. Martin
  • Antonio Gaudi
  • The Coen Brothers
  • John Lennon
  • Jim Henson
  • David Ogilvy
  • Alan Turing

Who inspires you?