Hardware Podcasts

Squarespace: Anthony Casalena

How I Built This · 4 Mar 2019 · 53m

What this episode covers

Anthony Casalena, founder of Squarespace, explains how he built the website builder from a dorm room project at the University of Maryland in 2003, initially funding it with $30,000 from his parents. He details the early operational crises, including a critical server crash that required an emergency drive to New York, and the intense stress of running the company alone before hiring CEO Dane Atkinson and later rewriting the platform as Squarespace 6. The episode covers Squarespace's strategic pivot to podcast advertising, its $38.5 million Series A from Index Ventures and Excel Partners, and its growth into a company valued at $1.7 billion with over 800 employees.

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founders before launch, early-stage companies and companies scaling up

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Mentioned

Companies
U.S. Bank, Getty Images, Index Ventures, Excel Partners
Products
Squarespace, DreamWeaver, Blogger, Mom Box
Also
University of Maryland

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