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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
Assertion Partly supported
Mailchimp Reached 1M Users Within One Year of Switching to Freemium
“Freemium was something that we kind of accidentally fell into, didn't really think much about it, and that turned out to be this thing that kind of, I think we were probably, you know, in tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of users at the time, and the…”
Ben Chestnut Dec 12, 2022 ▶ 5:54 Ben Chestnut: Why I Sold MailChimp; How My Kids Found Out I Was a Billionaire | E959 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Supported
Mailchimp Approached $1B ARR Before Its Intuit Acquisition
“Mailchimp was making hundreds of millions of dollars and we were on the cusp of a billion ARR when the acquisition happened. So, I mean, we were already doing really, really well, highly profitable.”
Ben Chestnut Dec 12, 2022 ▶ 43:56 Ben Chestnut: Why I Sold MailChimp; How My Kids Found Out I Was a Billionaire | E959 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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