Webflow's Near Death Experience

<p>Today <a href="https://news.crunchbase.com/news/webflow-raises-140m-hits-2-1b-valuation/">Webflow is valued at 2 billion</a>, profitable, and is a leader of the No Code movement.</p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1380084856084783106?s=20"><em>Share this on Twitter</em></a><br> <br>Vlad's Webflow Journey: <a href="https://twitter.com/callmevlad/status/1095333269946621958">https://twitter.com/callmevlad/status/1095333269946621958</a></p><p>Audio source: <a href="https://saastr.libsyn.com/saastr-438-webflow-ceo-vlad-magdalin-on-building-an-enduring-company-one-hard-lesson-at-a-time">https://saastr.libsyn.com/saastr-438-webflow-ceo-vlad-magdalin-on-building-an-enduring-company-one-hard-lesson-at-a-time</a></p><p><strong>swyx: </strong>[00:00:00] Vlad Magdalin started Webflow and his story , starting it several times over 16 years is when it's super inspiring and also just jaw dropping. He told a little bit of it in the SaaStr podcast, and I encourage you to listen to the whole story, but here's a clip where it really got to the wire. <br></p><p><strong>Vlad Magdalin: </strong>[00:00:16] I sold all the stock that I could, that I had at Intuit had basically my entire life savings, which total about 20 grand with the stock sales and poured it all into the company and got my wife on board. Got her convinced that, we were going to raise a ton of funding and a couple months, and it was off to the races.</p><p>My brother Sergey moved into our tiny little condo where we had our kids' room that we cleaned out that he crashed on the floor. We somehow had this kind of perception that we had to do all of this stuff to run a startup. Like we spent half a day in a park taking professional headshots, even though we didn't have a product, we didn't have a website.</p><p>We didn't have anybody who cared about like what we were building, but we just like somehow had this checkbook, like. List of things in our minds around like what real startups do. But in retrospect it was silly. And then we thought that, Hey