In the fifth episode of Penn State’s “Dare to Disrupt” podcast, David Rusenko, founder of Weebly and a 2007 graduate of the College of Information Sciences and Technology, shares his journey from coding in his apartment to leading a company acquired by Square for $365 million. He discusses the challenges of convincing users they could build their own websites without professional designers, highlighting a pivotal moment during a Y Combinator pitch where they recreated a venture capitalist’s website in five minutes to demonstrate Weebly’s potential. The episode also features a conversation with Sydney Gibbard, a Penn State student and founder of Girls Code the World, who seeks advice on scaling a startup while maintaining product quality.
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