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Meetup founder Scott Heiferman called Weebly the stupidest idea in 2006
“Well, in, in the summer of 2006, after writing that first line of code I went and pitched Weebly at the New York Tech Meetup, and it was a thousand people. It was, we were kind of alpha stage at that point, and it was in front of a thousand people, and I gave …”
A South African competitor raised $40M and blatantly cloned Weebly's UI
“I remember one of our competitors, I won't name them but they're from South Africa and they had raised forty million bucks and we had raised 650 K and they things were not going that great for them. And so they completely ripped off our interface. And they jus…”
Rusenko: Substantially all of Weebly's growth comes from word of mouth
“So, so, so I'll start by saying that that we've had substantially all of our growth has been via word of mouth.”
Rusenko: Half of the US population visits a Weebly site monthly
“And probably one of my favorite stats is that half of the US population visits a Weebly site every single month.”
Rusenko: 2008 Silicon Valley consensus was to actively avoid charging users
“In 2007 and 2008, the prevailing thinking in Silicon Valley was that you should actively not charge money. You should actively be not making money. That was the prevailing thinking. It sounds really, really crazy now. But at the time, the logic went that Twitt…”
Rusenko: Most paying Weebly customers pay $8 to $15 per month
“No, most people are sort of somewhere in that like eight to 15 dollar a month price range.”
Rusenko: Weebly sees some free users convert to paid after six years
“We see people converting six years later for the first time, someone who signed up for the first time, who has been consistently using the service, who's paying us for the first time six years later.”
Rusenko: Weebly has over 50 million users on its platform
“We're over fifty million people that are using Weebly.”
Rusenko: Weebly sites get 325 million monthly visits globally
“About three hundred twenty-five million people every single month visit one of those websites or online stores that were created by those entrepreneurs. I think that's really cool. That's a global number, just the US component of that represents about half of …”
Rusenko: Weebly saw under 0.5% conversion at paid launch in 2008
“When we first started to introduce our first paying subscription, which was Weebly Pro, and when we first introduced that I think it was in June of 2008. We saw a conversion rate of just under .5%.”
Rusenko: Weebly reached 50M users and sold to Square for $365M
“Grew the company to fifty million users and around 350 employees. Sold the square in May of this year for three hundred sixty five million.”
Rusenko: Weebly achieved an 80% NPS in its early days
“So in the early days Weebly had an NPS of 80%.”