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Anthony Casalena

7 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Oct 8, 2021 by Anthony Casalena · said 12 times in 4 episodes since 2021 · across every show →

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Oct 8, 2021
Disclosure
Casalena: Squarespace ran break-even for seven years on a $30K investment
“I started the company with a 30,000 dollar investment from my parents and ran it through Break even for seven years.”
Anthony Casalena Oct 8, 2021 ▶ 4:26 20VC: Squarespace Founder, Anthony Casalena on Scaling Squarespace from Dorm Room To Public Company with over $700M in ARR, The Decision to Direct List over Traditional IPO or SPAC & What Changes When You Go Public?
Oct 8, 2021
Insight
Casalena: Capital cannot directly solve usability or engineering management problems
“I think my problems were not exactly money dependent back then as much as they were making the product easier to use or, you know, engineering management or things like that, that money can't just directly fix.”
Anthony Casalena Oct 8, 2021 ▶ 8:13 20VC: Squarespace Founder, Anthony Casalena on Scaling Squarespace from Dorm Room To Public Company with over $700M in ARR, The Decision to Direct List over Traditional IPO or SPAC & What Changes When You Go Public?
Oct 8, 2021 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Squarespace raised over $948M prior to its May 2021 IPO
“To date, Anthony has raised over nine hundred and forty eight million dollars for the company from the likes of General Atlantic, Index Ventures, Tiger Global, culminating in their IPO in May 2021.”
Harry Stebbings Oct 8, 2021 ▶ 0:25 20VC: Squarespace Founder, Anthony Casalena on Scaling Squarespace from Dorm Room To Public Company with over $700M in ARR, The Decision to Direct List over Traditional IPO or SPAC & What Changes When You Go Public?
Oct 8, 2021
Disclosure
Casalena took secondary liquidity in 2010 to avoid selling Squarespace
“Back when I took some secondary, I would say it was, and this is 2010, it was very much not the norm, and I was looking to do it for a very specific reason, because I didn't want to sell the company, and at the time I basically owned all of it.”
Anthony Casalena Oct 8, 2021 ▶ 9:17 20VC: Squarespace Founder, Anthony Casalena on Scaling Squarespace from Dorm Room To Public Company with over $700M in ARR, The Decision to Direct List over Traditional IPO or SPAC & What Changes When You Go Public?
Oct 8, 2021
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Casalena: Squarespace raised under $50M in primary capital over 17 years
“Squarespace has grown up with about fifty million dollars in primary capital invested, save the round we did right before going public, which was a couple months ago and had a different use. But for 17 years, it was essentially under fifty million in primary c…”
Anthony Casalena Oct 8, 2021 ▶ 5:09 20VC: Squarespace Founder, Anthony Casalena on Scaling Squarespace from Dorm Room To Public Company with over $700M in ARR, The Decision to Direct List over Traditional IPO or SPAC & What Changes When You Go Public?
Oct 8, 2021 positive
Insight
Casalena: Breaking even gives founders control and fundraising leverage
“If you are break, even you are more in control of your destiny and it puts you in a better negotiating position for when, you know, you do need to go or want to go and raise money because you can take it or leave it.”
Anthony Casalena Oct 8, 2021 ▶ 8:42 20VC: Squarespace Founder, Anthony Casalena on Scaling Squarespace from Dorm Room To Public Company with over $700M in ARR, The Decision to Direct List over Traditional IPO or SPAC & What Changes When You Go Public?
Oct 8, 2021
Assertion Supported
Casalena: Squarespace reached a $10M run rate on $30K seed capital
“It was about 30 people, maybe, run rate of around, around ten million. So we got from nothing to there, you know, with 30,000.”
Anthony Casalena Oct 8, 2021 ▶ 5:27 20VC: Squarespace Founder, Anthony Casalena on Scaling Squarespace from Dorm Room To Public Company with over $700M in ARR, The Decision to Direct List over Traditional IPO or SPAC & What Changes When You Go Public?
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