How Acuity Scheduling grew 5X in 3 years (and was acquired by Squarespace)

Gavin Zuchlinski, Acuity Scheduling, Bootstrapping, Mixergy Fan, SaaS (software as a service), Scaling, Sell Your Business

Joining me is someone who was a Mixergy listener and whose software runs our entire booking process for guests.

I love what he built for so many reasons but about a year ago I read that he sold it to Squarespace! He bootstrapped the company so I want to find out his motivations for exiting.

I asked him to come back to the podcast to tell me how he grew since the last time we talked, how the sale went down, and how his life has changed after the sale.

Gavin Zuchlinski

Acuity Scheduling

Gavin Zuchlinski is the founder of Acuity Scheduling, online appointment scheduling software.

Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. I am so excited about today’s interview. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy, where I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses. Joining me is someone who listened to Mixergy interviews and more personally to me, his software interacts with every single one of my freaking guests. A long time ago I realized I had a hard time booking guests on Mixergy, not just with me, but we have two producers here. At times, we’ve even had three producers here. And I needed an easy way for a guest who said yes to get on a call with a producer. And often they don’t even want to schedule a call with a producer because what’s an extra step for? They just want the attention. They just want the link. But I need them to talk to a producer so that we can get some information about them, prepare them, and prepare ourselves for them.

And then I need them to schedule with me. And again, at...

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