The startup raised a $120 million Series C—but that isn’t why CEO Vlad Magdalin has been getting attention at Starbucks.
Webflow's founders are chief experience officer Sergie Magdalin, CEO Vlad Magdalin and chief technology Bryant Chou.Vlad Magdalin says he’s been getting odd looks at Starbucks in recent weeks when he tells the baristas his first name. But he has no reservations about the war in Ukraine initiated by the man who shares that name—the day the invasion began, Magdalin renounced his dual Russian citizenship.
Webflow was founded in 2012 by Magdalin and his brother Sergie—religious refugees who moved from Russia as children—as well as their friend Bryant Chou. Afterin its early days, the company capitalized on growing buzz in “no code” software and were accepted into Y Combinator’s accelerator. But after taking $2.9 million in seed funding in 2014, the trio chose to hunker down and bootstrap the company until it became self-sustaining.
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