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Assertion Supported

Casalena: Squarespace has spent up to $1B on brand marketing

“We've also spent hundreds of millions of dollars, probably a billion dollars on brand”

Anthony Casalena Oct 8, 2021 ▶ 27:33 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?

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?

Assertion Supported

Casalena: Selling capabilities were Squarespace's most requested feature for a decade

“The ability to sell things on Squarespace has been the most requested feature for a decade. We started investing in our e-commerce platform. That's basically physical goods, digital goods, eight years ago.”

Anthony Casalena Oct 8, 2021 ▶ 16:34 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?

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?

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