Advice Line with Anthony Casalena of Squarespace

Hello and welcome to the advice line on how I built this lab. I'm Guy Raz. This is the place where we help try to solve your business challenges. Each week I'm joined by a legendary founder, a former guest on the show. Who will help me try to help you. And if you're building something and you need advice, give us a call and you just might be the next guest on the show. Our number is 1-800-433-1298. Leave us a one-minute message that tells us about your business and the issues or questions that you'd like help with. All right, let's get to it. Joining me this week is Anthony Casalena, the founder and CEO of Squarespace. Anthony, welcome back to the show. Pleasure to be here. It's great to have you on. You were first on the show back in 2019. You told us, of course, of course, about Squarespace's origin story. And all the things that you you learned growing the Squarespace. You founded it in two thousand three as a twenty one year old kid, as a college student. I remember some of the stories about

g racing up and down I ninety five and changing physically, changing the servers out and all this craziness. Um but basically it started because you had a frustration. You won' y you there wasn't anything really to build websites that was easy. And good and and you basically built the software for yourself and then A friend saw it and said, I'd pay you two hundred bucks to use it and and that's kinda how it was born. Yep.

That's right. It's it's an absolutely amazing story. And of course we will put a link to that original interview in the uh podcast notes in the show description, so please check it out. Um it's just an awesome story. Since you were on, Anthony, um, you've taken the company public. It then hit over a billion dollars in revenue, and then last year.

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