Facebook puts Instagram Kids on pause, Bevy’s high-profile firing + Squarespace’s Anthony Casalena | E1291
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2021
⏱️ 96 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, we've got a great show for you today on this week in startups. I interview my friend Anthony |
| 0:05.2 | Castellania from Squarespace. As you know, they went public recently and he was last on the podcast |
| 0:11.4 | a decade ago, episode 100 or so. And now he's back a thousand episodes later. Squarespace has grown |
| 0:17.6 | from a couple of dozen people with him, racking servers, to 2,000 employees, a public company, |
| 0:23.2 | and he was in a very candid mood. We talked about his direct listening. We talked about |
| 0:27.2 | scaling a business, scaling a team, and he talked about, well, there are near-death experiences |
| 0:31.7 | as a company and why he's still engaged in Squarespace now more so than ever. In fact, |
| 0:38.2 | but before that, we're going to talk about some news. Adam, sorry, went on the today's show and |
| 0:42.8 | talked about the train wreck that is Instagram and Facebook and the Facebook papers. He actually |
| 0:48.5 | came up with and talked about some ideas that we talked about last week on the program in terms |
| 0:53.3 | of people taking a pause from their social media and maybe building in some monitoring tools for |
| 0:58.2 | parents. Finally, Bevy, which is a virtual events company, has fired an employee who's caught |
| 1:05.6 | being racist on video in Williamsburg this past weekend. And there's a ton of fallout. I think |
| 1:10.8 | this is an important discussion for startup founders and employees about your personal behavior |
| 1:15.6 | and how it relates to your company's reputation. Stick with us in a big, great episode. |
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