This was inspired by Sahil's twitter thread [1] the other day. I included the number of employees along with any relevant blog posts or interviews for each company to provide more context.<p>Interestingly enough, it turns out Basecamp's founders actually kinda sorta got some money from Jeff Bezos [2] when they were starting out, but apparently the money was never used to fund the company so technically they're still bootstrapped.<p>[1]: <a href="https://twitter.com/shl/status/1220111852312518656" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/shl/status/1220111852312518656</a><p>[2]: <a href="https://m.signalvnoise.com/the-deal-jeff-bezos-got-on-basecamp/" rel="nofollow">https://m.signalvnoise.com/the-deal-jeff-bezos-got-on-baseca...</a>