We welcome Nick Quaranto to 37signals

We welcome Nick Quaranto to 37signals David Dec 01 2011

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Nick Quaranto joins 37signals as our eighth programmer today after impressing everyone during his trial month. Nick is not only a manager of one, but also eager to leave everything better than he found it. That’s a valuable instinct when you’re working with applications old enough to talk back!

Nick’s work on creating the modern-day rubygems.org was certainly no minus either. I’m constantly amazed at how easy it now is to create, distribute, and update Ruby libraries and frameworks through the gem system. It almost feels like cheating after living through a former era of zip files, rubyforge, and other more manual approaches.

So we welcome Nick to our small troupe of programmers and hope he’ll stay long. He’ll be in great company. Sam Stephenson just celebrated his sixth birthday with 37signals today. Jamis Buck has been here for close to seven years. Jeremy Kemper for almost five years. As a company, we’re in this for the next twenty years and beyond, so it’s wonderful to have a crew to grow old together with.

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18 comments so far

Haacked 01 Dec 11

Congrats Nick! One other aspect of Nick you forgot to mention is that he shares his knowledge with the broader community and isn’t bound by whether you belong in this community or that.

The NuGet team appreciates the insight he’s provided on running our own package gallery! It’s been a big help.

Good luck Nick!

Whitelancer 01 Dec 11

Grats Qrush! What an awesome opportunity!!

JH 01 Dec 11

Welcome NQ! It’s great to have you on board.

Sarah H 01 Dec 11

@37signals

What’s this new product you’re working on that Nick will help out with?

DHH 01 Dec 11

Sarah, all will be revealed in due time :)

Andrew 01 Dec 11

Nick could rule the world one day, and he’d still be my corner cube intern. And I’d still tell him to ‘google it’ :)

Adam 01 Dec 11

@DHH, do you pay people for their time in these trial periods?

JF 01 Dec 11

Adam: Yes. They are contractors during that period.

Joe McLaughlin 01 Dec 11

Good job, Nick

Kelly Sutton 01 Dec 11

I’ve been following Nick @qrush for awhile, and I can’t think of a better guy to bring to 37signals. Congrats to both of you!

Ken 01 Dec 11

@Sarah H

A friend of mine works at 37signals. He told me the new web-app isn’t much more than another to-do list, just like Basecamp/Backpackit/Highrisehq.

In all fairness, Highrisehq is more like a private blog on customers.

Jeff Whitmire 02 Dec 11

Congrats Nick and 37signals. Great opportunity for both of you, can’t wait the @qrush genius at work!

GeeIWonder 02 Dec 11

Congrats! New job and staff are always very exciting.

As a company, we’re in this for the next twenty years and beyond

I know this is probably just an off-the cuff statement, but out of curiosity (and because it reads a bit like a promise from an LLC ) can you clarify if this is a statement of something real and tangible?

(Apologies for the mistyped trailing bracket above.)

Anthony Barone 04 Dec 11

Congrats Nick! RIT does produce really talented people who are educated to think different. The focus on innovation by bringing students together across all colleges from business, photography, arts & crafts, computer science, gaming and design is awesome. After all, few innovations are brand new. Most are just taking ideas from different disciplines and rearranging them in new and better ways. Good for you to be a part of a business that embodies these characteristics and challenges the status quo.

And to my friends at 37signals… yes I have my MBA from RIT . I think RIT is a great example of rearranging your MBA to build innovative businesses in new and better ways as opposed to simply unlearning your MBA . Keep up the great work.

J.D. Meier 05 Dec 11

Congrats!

It sounds like you’ve got a great SWAT team.

At the end of the day, opposites attract, but similarities bind. That’s why shared values are what keep us together for the long haul.

Brian Greenberg 05 Dec 11

Congrats Nick…and congrats to 37 signals on the continued growth.

Web site design and web development company in Australia. 07 Dec 11

welcome to you nick ,you have to do some struggle and you will be on top after some time ,and it is good for 37 signal that it may grow more then any one due to nick

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