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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 …”
Rusenko: The best startups create new markets, rendering market research useless
“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…”
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: 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: 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.”
Livingston: YC funded 632 startups valued at over $20B by 2014
“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.”
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 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.”
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.”
Rusenko: Weebly achieved an 80% NPS in its early days
“So in the early days Weebly had an NPS of 80%.”