Weebly

“So fast forward to today, and Y Combinator has funded 632 startups that now have a combined valuation of over twenty billion dollars, including Dropbox, Airbnb, Weebly, and Stripe.”

“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…”

“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.”

“The best companies will create a market. So if you look at sort of what Weebly's done, if you look at what Airbnb's done, if you look at what Dropbox has done, all, all companies have created their own market. I say this because by definition here, market rese…”

“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…”

“We basically became cashflow positive in January, 2009, and more or less were through the rest of the history of the company.”

“Even at Weebly scale today, we still sometimes have difficulty with getting statistical significance for some of our tests.”

“So in the early days Weebly had an NPS of 80%.”

“This is exactly what you should expect if you get on TechCrunch or any press. It goes straight up, and it's really exciting that day, and then it goes straight back down the next day. And, but at least settles a little bit higher.”

“And probably one of my favorite stats is that half of the US population visits a Weebly site every single month.”

“We raised 650 K on a two million dollar pre-money valuation. So 2.65 post. That was considered above average, slightly above average. We were all very jealous of Dropbox, who had raised a five million dollar post money valuation”

“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 …”