Zach Rosen

Best advice I got all year.

Best advice I got all year.

My name is Zach Rosen. I'm from Detroit, Michigan, and I'm currently living in Amsterdam. The best piece of advice I got this year is from my friend Daniel Estrin, and the advice is this. When someone says thank you, just say you're welcome. This is not as easy as it seems. We usually say, oh no, thank you, or no problem. But when we actually accept a thank you with a you're welcome,

My name is Zach Rosen. I'm from Detroit, Michigan, and I'm currently living in Amsterdam. The best piece of advice I got this year is from my friend Daniel Estrin, and the advice is this. When someone says thank you, just say you're welcome. This is not as easy as it seems. We usually say, oh no, thank you, or no problem. But when we actually accept a thank you with a you're welcome,

I find it deeply satisfying for both parties. And I think it's just a really good practice to accept thanks from someone sincerely.

I find it deeply satisfying for both parties. And I think it's just a really good practice to accept thanks from someone sincerely.

It was $160 million, which is the size of many IPOs.

Yeah.

So we are a website operations platform for WordPress and Drupal.

So we host websites, but our real value is our developer tools.

And we're built for marketers who want to iterate really quickly on the websites.

Yeah, so the website industry is a very large industry.

It's about $200 billion a year.

So as an industry, we spent more money on our websites than anything else, more than digital advertising.

And there are a few different segments of products.

So on one end of the marketplace, you have the Wix's, Weebly's, Squarespace's.

And those are built for companies where the business owner typically is building the website themselves.

So you're choosing a template, buying the main name, and then launching a website in a couple hours.

So those are not our customers.

So we work with companies where they have professional marketers on staff, and the marketers are designing and building the website to drive the business.