Anthony Casalena: Founder & CEO of Squarespace | #ThePlaybook 321

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Anthony Casalena, Founder & CEO of Squarespace, sits down to discuss how Squarespace evolved from him trying to solve a website design problem for himself into a business that empowers countless entrepreneurs across the world. Casalena and host of #ThePlaybook, David Meltzer, chat about a variety of topics including why Squarespace’s differentiator has changed over the years as the digital space has evolved, how their tools are being used during the pandemic to give entrepreneurs the ability to test business models, and the biggest lessons they’ve learned about managing employees and overhead. The pair also discuss their different approaches for setting goals and deadlines in order to grow an organization. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	On this into this COVID space making money helping people and having fun you're going to learn how on this episode of the playbook
0:20.0	this is entrepreneurs the playbook for each week I bring you some of the greatest athletes, celebrities,
0:26.3	and entrepreneurs to talk about their personal and professional Playbook to success
0:31.5	and what made them champions on the field and in the board
0:35.3	room. I'm your host David Melzer. This Dave Melcher with entrepreneurs the
0:39.6	playbook and I have a special guest Anthony Cassellena. He is the founder and CEO of
0:44.6	Square Space and Square Space Anthony fits right into
0:48.8	squarely the space that I'm talking to with small business owners,
0:53.1	entrepreneurs, and you yourself
0:56.6	have been a young extraordinarily successful
0:58.9	entrepreneurs.
0:59.4	So I want to talk about the biggest challenge
1:01.9	that most of my audience has as far as being a small business and an entrepreneur and it's getting started.
1:08.0	Most people don't ask the question, you know, how did you get started with such a great business?
1:13.4	Yeah, it's a great question.
1:15.6	By the way, thank you for having me.
1:18.0	It's a real pleasure.
1:20.6	So my God, I mean you say young entrepreneur, I started Squarespace 17 years ago actually.
1:26.6	So getting back to when I got started, this was 2003 and I was trying to make a website for myself and was really frustrated with all the tools out there.
1:36.7	And so I wanted something that was easy to use all in one and really design centric.
1:42.1	You know, design's a big part of how I think about things. in one and really design centric.
1:42.5	Design's a big part of how I think about things
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