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Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace
by Ricardo Semler
Semler’s account of reshaping his family’s Brazilian manufacturing company Semco and its workplace practices.
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Recommended by, documented so far
Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace appears in 2 currently documented source-backed recommendations.
Jason Fried
37signals cofounder and software-company operator
Recommended
Own reading selection
interview
Documented citation: Jason Fried recommends Maverick to a reader starting a business.
Documented citation · Recommended
Open source
Evidence details
Tone is in Your FingersThis source documents the book relationship, but the displayed text is a catalog summary rather than a verbatim quote.
37signals / Signal v. Noise · 2022-05-03 · accessed 2026-10-01
interview · Own reading selection
Jason at 19:41 and 19:54 explicitly recommends the book. Host REWORK joke and DHH’s separate recommendations excluded.
Jason Fried
37signals cofounder and software-company operator
Recommended
Own reading selection
interview
Documented citation: Jason Fried selects Maverick as an influential book in building his business.
Documented citation · Recommended
Open source
Evidence details
Rapid Fire with Jason & DavidThis source documents the book relationship, but the displayed text is a catalog summary rather than a verbatim quote.
37signals / Signal v. Noise · 2024-03-06 · accessed 2026-10-01
interview · Own reading selection
Jason at 00:28 gives his positive influential-book selection, a separate event from 2022. Blue Ocean Strategy is DHH’s answer, not Fried’s.