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Jensen Huang Declares AGI Has Arrived | Tesla Launches Cybercabs | Index Pulls Out of Town
- ▶ 56:41 Jason Lemkin I remember, I remember years ago when Ben Chestnut came and talked right after, what did MailChimp buy them for, Rory?
Leo Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness Blows Up | Moonshot AI Raises $3.5B at $35B
- ▶ 1:08:55 Harry Stebbings We have MailChimp revenue declines for eight straight quarters.
20Sales: How to Layer Enterprise Sales on PLG | How to Sell AI Tools To Enterprises That Are Scared | Should Reps Own Their Own Pipeline | Mistakes All Founders Make When Moving From Founder-Led to Rep-Led Sales with Kim Graves
- ▶ 3:42 Harry Stebbings Some of the biggest names in tech, like MailChimp, Zapier, and Dropbox, got their start on AppSumo, and with a rotating selection of hundreds of tools, you'll find all the software you need to make your life easier in twenty-twenty-five.
- ▶ 1:16:45 Harry Stebbings Some of the biggest names in tech like Mailchimp, Zapier, and Dropbox got their start on AppSumo, and with a rotating selection of hundreds of tools, you'll find all the software you need to make your life easier in 2025.
Fabien Pinckaers, CEO @Odoo: The Billionaire Founder Who Doesn’t Care About Money | E1259 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:04 Fabien Pinckaers They have a lot of spreadsheets, but they use Slack for discussion, MailChimp to send email, WordPress for a website.
- ▶ 40:50 Fabien Pinckaers And then you have the small player, like Slack, MailChimp, uh, to send email Trello, Asana, and so on.
Shardul Shah: How Index Makes Decisions & Why Benchmarks & Averages in VC are BS | E1202 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:53 Shardul Shah Like if you think about MailChimp, beautiful business, bootstrap, never raised a single dollar, phenomenal founder, great outcome, right?
Jason Lemkin: Crowdstrike, WTF Happens From Here? Wiz Rejects Google’s $23BN Acquisition Offer|E1181 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:13 Jason Lemkin Um, we'd have to IPO well north of thirty billion for it to be worth it, which, which you can believe, but then you look and you're like, man, if there's even more than a 10%, 20% antitrust rate, putting that in, the distraction is so… 2 times in the scene
Andrew Bialecki: Is Klaviyo the Most Under-Priced Public Company? | E1170 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 29:35 Harry Stebbings I spoke to some brilliant friends and they, they gave me some insider tips and they said a big needle mover for the company was when MailChimp was kicked out of the Shopify ecosystem and you'd kind of hung around the hoop long enough and…
Jason Lemkin: Why Pricing is Worse Than Ever and There is More Funding Than Ever | E1157 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 56:16 Jason Lemkin You can either do what like Ben Chestnut did at MailChimp and, and just be hyper efficient and say it is what it is.
- ▶ 1:13:51 Jason Lemkin Dominating this thing, kicked MailChimp out of Shopify on a billion in revenue.
Des Traynor: How to Survive and Thrive in a World of OpenAI | E1082 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:15 Des Traynor The old world, the old world, if you have, if you, some of your viewers might be old enough to remember would have been, you get a database export, you import that into MailChimp or campaign monitor or something like that.
- ▶ 30:27 Des Traynor But then there are some cases, for example, let's say we said we're going to build, we're going to build MailChimp. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:26 Des Traynor It's on top in our earlier example, it's on top for Mailchimp and it's on top for the new startup too, right?
Basecamp CEO Jason Fried: We Banned Talking Politics and 1/3 of our Team Quit | 20VC #963 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:26 Harry Stebbings I just had Ben Chestnut on from Mailchimp.
Ben Chestnut: Why I Sold MailChimp; How My Kids Found Out I Was a Billionaire | E959 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:16 Harry Stebbings We were just chatting now, and you said to me that you're an accidental entrepreneur, and so talk to me, how did you come to found Mailchimp, and what was that aha moment for you? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:55 Harry Stebbings You mentioned MailChimp being kind of the result of a series of kind of continuous pivots. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:10 Ben Chestnut Uh, and I think that's, that's, that's kind of in the DNA of Mailchimp, this sort of like this, this understanding that small business entrepreneurs, you know, they might start small, but they're dreaming big.
- ▶ 13:53 Ben Chestnut When I think about high performance at Mailchimp, the way that I ran the business, I, I never really thought about it as setting a high goal and telling people to crush it at all costs. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:30 Ben Chestnut Um, I, I think that, you know, in the very early years of MailChimp, creativity was everything to me.
- ▶ 23:42 Ben Chestnut They, I don't know why, but I was leader of the misfits always, and I think MailChimp is like the island of misfit toys sometimes, and I think those early years of kind of listening and learning from a lot of these people who would come… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:23 Harry Stebbings Do you think in hindsight, you know, if you think, you know, I'm sure the most and you could have taken a 100,000,500 million, a billion, um, like everyone wanted to give MailChimp money. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:28 Ben Chestnut I'm still at Mailchimp. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:02 Ben Chestnut I tried to get the publicity in the very early years of MailChimp. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:20 Ben Chestnut You know, Dan and I knew, and that's very, very rare, um, and he talked about it with a passion that I'd never heard before, and we talked about, you know, what, what it would be like to combine forces, and I kind of felt like, you know,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:56 Ben Chestnut I mean, Mailchimp was making hundreds of millions of dollars and we were on the cusp of a billion ARR when the acquisition happened. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:04 Harry Stebbings They're like, welcome to a day of male chimps rubbing me. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:03 Ben Chestnut I would love it to just be able to, like with Mailchimp, it happened in Atlanta.
20VC: Intercom Founder, Eoghan McCabe on How To Deal with the Weight of Expectation, Having Your Identity Tied To Your Company, How To Be Your Authentic Self Even with Stakeholders & Why There Are No Rules
- ▶ 16:07 Eoghan McCabe MailChimp is another great example.
20VC: Ashton Kutcher on Early Lessons From Investing in Airbnb and Spotify, Why VC Ownership Requirements Are Becoming More and More Egregious & What Being Good At Product Truly Means
- ▶ 35:13 Ashton Kutcher And it's basically, it's like a cross between MailChimp for text messaging and superhuman for text messaging.
20VC: The 4 Key Skills All VCs Need To Be Successful, How To Build, Maintain and Scale Your Network in VC and What is The Process Through Which VCs Build Conviction in Opportunities with Max Motschwiller, General Partner @ Meritech Capital
- ▶ 32:35 Max Motschwiller There are a lot of tools like a Marketo, of course, a MailChimp that are allowing marketers to be more data driven and doing their job.
20VC: Why VCs Are Wrong About Bootstrapped Founders, How Content Can Be Used As A Key Customer Acquisition Tool & How To Use Humour When "S*** Hits The Fan" with Jesse Genet, Founder & CEO @ Lumi
- ▶ 3:45 Jesse Genet So many products that I don't have to educate you on, like Stripe and Square and MailChimp, Shopify.
20VC: Why VCs Fundamentally Assess Founders The Wrong Way, Why VC Needs To Innovate On The Scouting Model & Why SAFE's and Convertible Notes Are The Future Of Investing with Elizabeth Yin, Founder & General Partner @ Hustle Fund
- ▶ 13:26 Elizabeth Yin A lot of, you know, KPIs that are important to founders very often you can find in platforms such as MailChimp or CRMs.