Mailchimp, every mention

Ben Chestnut: Why I Sold MailChimp; How My Kids Found Out I Was a Billionaire | E959 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Dec 12, 2022 · 32 mentions

• ▶ 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.