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David Rusenko

Founder & Managing Partner, Leap Forward Ventures · 1 appearance on the record.

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David Rusenko is the co-founder and former CEO of website-building platform Weebly, which was acquired by Square for $365 million in 2018. Following his time as General Manager of eCommerce at Square, he founded Leap Forward Ventures to invest in early-stage climate and clean energy startups.

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1 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 1 not yet assessed 4 not checkable as stated how the 6 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

6 assertions · 18 insights · 3 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 6 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, 1 is not yet assessed, and 4 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

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Assertion Supported
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.”
David Rusenko Sep 5, 2018 ▶ 1:07 David Rusenko - How To Find Product Market Fit · Y Combinator

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Disclosure
Weebly still struggles with statistical significance in testing
“Even at Weebly scale today, we still sometimes have difficulty with getting statistical significance for some of our tests.”
David Rusenko Sep 5, 2018 ▶ 22:38 David Rusenko - How To Find Product Market Fit · Y Combinator
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Rusenko: Weebly achieved an 80% NPS in its early days
“So in the early days Weebly had an NPS of 80%.”
David Rusenko Sep 5, 2018 ▶ 30:31 David Rusenko - How To Find Product Market Fit · Y Combinator
Disclosure
Rusenko: Weebly became cashflow positive in January 2009
“We basically became cashflow positive in January, 2009, and more or less were through the rest of the history of the company.”
David Rusenko Sep 5, 2018 ▶ 49:37 David Rusenko - How To Find Product Market Fit · Y Combinator

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Appearances (1)

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David Rusenko - How To Find Product Market Fit · Y Combinator Sep 5, 2018 48m
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