Ben Chestnut

6 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 12, 2022 by Ben Chestnut · said 6 times in 4 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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Dec 12, 2022 positive
Disclosure
Ben Chestnut: Mailchimp rejected early buyout offers and outside VC funding
“There were times when I think we could have sold the business early. There were a lot of people, you know, a lot of suitors knocking on the door, a lot of investors knocking on the door. And I think I just sort of had this like stubbornness that I didn't need …”
Ben Chestnut Dec 12, 2022 ▶ 28:04 Ben Chestnut: Why I Sold MailChimp; How My Kids Found Out I Was a Billionaire | E959 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 12, 2022
Disclosure
Mailchimp co-founder Ben Chestnut does not do any angel investing
“I don't invest. I don't do any kind of angel investing.”
Ben Chestnut Dec 12, 2022 ▶ 21:51 Ben Chestnut: Why I Sold MailChimp; How My Kids Found Out I Was a Billionaire | E959 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 12, 2022 positive
Assertion Contradicted
Ben Chestnut Banned Calling Customers 'Small Businesses' In External Marketing
“Because of my mother, I think I never called our customers small businesses. I never said small, I would say businesses, or I would talk about their dreams of becoming big, but I never like called it. It's useful, you know, internally to call it a category SMB…”
Ben Chestnut Dec 12, 2022 ▶ 8:21 Ben Chestnut: Why I Sold MailChimp; How My Kids Found Out I Was a Billionaire | E959 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 12, 2022
Insight
Ben Chestnut: Sudden wealth alters founder psychology more than slow growth
“Going from poor to rich can really do a number on your brain. And I think, you know, my co-founder Dan and I were so lucky that we just sort of really gradually grew and we could stay grounded.”
Ben Chestnut Dec 12, 2022 ▶ 34:45 Ben Chestnut: Why I Sold MailChimp; How My Kids Found Out I Was a Billionaire | E959 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 12, 2022 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ben Chestnut: Mailchimp Was The Final Pivot In A Lifelong Series
“I still maintain that Mailchimp is really just the end of a series of pivots from grade school.”
Ben Chestnut Dec 12, 2022 ▶ 0:53 Ben Chestnut: Why I Sold MailChimp; How My Kids Found Out I Was a Billionaire | E959 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 12, 2022 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ben Chestnut: Entertaining Acquisition Offers Costs Six Months Of Innovation
“Sick and tired of the whole process, by the way, because it takes away six months of your innovation and your inner, you know, your momentum and stuff. It's distracting.”
Ben Chestnut Dec 12, 2022 ▶ 41:18 Ben Chestnut: Why I Sold MailChimp; How My Kids Found Out I Was a Billionaire | E959 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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