Mailchimp

6 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 3, 2021 by Benedict Evans · said 34 times in 12 episodes since 2020 · across every show →

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Jan 3, 2021 neutral
Assertion Supported
Evans: Mailchimp banned an anti-vaxxer without a recommendation algorithm
“MailChimp took down this Australian anti-vax campaigner, and MailChimp has no algorithm at all.”
Benedict Evans Jan 3, 2021 ▶ 11:23 The history of doom-scrolling
Jan 3, 2021
Disclosure
Evans sends 500,000 monthly emails to his 150,000 newsletter subscribers
“It costs me quite a lot because I've got a 150,000 subscribers. So like, yeah, they charge me for that. I send more than half a million emails a month.”
Benedict Evans Jan 3, 2021 ▶ 15:00 The history of doom-scrolling
Jan 3, 2021 positive
Insight
Evans: Substack succeeds by bundling WordPress, Mailchimp, and Stripe
“Substack is also easier than WordPress plus Stripe plus MailChimp plus plus plus plus. And so you can just go and go and get started.”
Benedict Evans Jan 3, 2021 ▶ 5:39 The history of doom-scrolling
Jan 3, 2021 neutral
Insight
Evans: Substack sits between a pure tool and a recommendation network
“Substack is in this kind of interesting place in the middle where, like, on one level they are squares, they are a Squarespace or MailChimp, they're a tool, and you pay them, or if you're charging, you pay, if you're not charging, it's free, and that's it, whi…”
Benedict Evans Jan 3, 2021 ▶ 10:20 The history of doom-scrolling
Jan 3, 2021 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Evans: Newsletter platforms will inevitably need algorithmic feeds as they scale
“What is it going to look like when you've got 10,000 people on your platform, and everybody's got signed up to 200 newsletters, You're going to have an algorithm. You are. Or you're going to be MailChimp, and you're going to say, that's not my problem, in whic…”
Benedict Evans Jan 3, 2021 ▶ 35:32 The history of doom-scrolling
Mar 14, 2022 neutral
Insight
Evans: MailChimp and Squarespace do not provide audience discovery
“MailChimp, like Squarespace, doesn't get me audience. It's just a tool.”
Benedict Evans Mar 14, 2022 ▶ 7:28 The Evolution of networks
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