{"id":74,"date":"2025-07-16T05:15:44","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T05:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nluto.soisweb.uwm.edu\/wp\/?p=74"},"modified":"2025-07-16T05:20:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T05:20:41","slug":"discussion-with-david-rusenko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nluto.soisweb.uwm.edu\/wp\/?p=74","title":{"rendered":"Discussion with David Rusenko"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/psu-gatsby-files-prod.s3.amazonaws.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/4_3_1500w\/public\/2022\/03\/David%20Rusenko%20Image%20PS%20News.png?h=827069f2&amp;itok=f2dQC-TO\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#8e8e8e\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psu.edu\/news\/invent-penn-state\/story\/weebly-founder-ist-alumnus-david-rusenko-speaks-dare-disrupt-podcast\">Image Credit<\/a><\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the fifth episode of Penn State&#8217;s &#8220;Dare to Disrupt&#8221; 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&#8217;s website in five minutes to demonstrate Weebly&#8217;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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image Credit In the fifth episode of Penn State&#8217;s &#8220;Dare to Disrupt&#8221; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-info"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nluto.soisweb.uwm.edu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nluto.soisweb.uwm.edu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nluto.soisweb.uwm.edu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nluto.soisweb.uwm.edu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nluto.soisweb.uwm.edu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nluto.soisweb.uwm.edu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75,"href":"https:\/\/nluto.soisweb.uwm.edu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/75"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nluto.soisweb.uwm.edu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nluto.soisweb.uwm.edu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nluto.soisweb.uwm.edu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}