Mailchimp, every mention
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every year anyone Benedict Evans 31Toni Cowan-Brown 3
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Mailchimp comes up
Most people and companies aren't tool-builders
- ▶ 5:55 Benedict Evans Like, you know, there's a whole bunch of software, you know, every big company has five different MailChimp accounts.
Looking for AI use-cases
- ▶ 16:55 Benedict Evans And you think, well, yeah, okay, um, there's the system that manages the HVAC, and there's the entry management system, and there's a meeting room booking software, and there's, um, MailChimp, and then there's the analytics on top of… 2 times in the scene
What's your AI strategy?
- ▶ 11:52 Benedict Evans And Canva, and MailChimp, and Grammarly, and Calendly, and, and, and, and, and, and,
Figma, unbundling and $20bn of antitrust
- ▶ 16:48 Benedict Evans But like, where is the like, why is there no Stripe, or MailChimp, or
The Evolution of networks
- ▶ 7:28 Benedict Evans Well, I mean, there's an interesting list of this because, I mean, so, so I do a weekly email newsletter, and, um, so I own that list, you know, because it's my, you know, I've got, I've got an account with MailChimp, and again, MailChimp,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:03 Benedict Evans The opposite of case, of course, is MailChimp, where, you know, I know they're not going to cut me off, but they don't give me any, they don't get me any, any audience either.
- ▶ 39:48 Benedict Evans This Gmail, the Gmail algorithm thing sort of intrigues me because it gets to the core of that portability that, like, yes, I've got the list, and MailChimp's not involved in this conversation at all, I'm still sending it to the same…
Talking about crypto
- ▶ 12:33 Benedict Evans So they can see the ad, which is, you know, what happens with MailChimp? 2 times in the scene
'Digital transformation' - beyond the silly slogan
- ▶ 25:08 Toni Cowan-Brown And they were just like, no, we came to you and we're replacing MailChimp with you.
Shopify and digital transformation
- ▶ 19:52 Benedict Evans And so at this point, like, you kind of need to understand that these things are possible and how they would work, which is also the point of Substack, which we've talked about before, which is like, yes, you can make a Squarespace…
Clubhouse and the endless cycle of social apps
- ▶ 19:50 Benedict Evans Um, but the point is, like, MailChimp won't get you an audience.
The history of doom-scrolling
- ▶ 4:44 Benedict Evans Um, but medium again is like, and there's also a tools thing in here, um, and not to go too far down the rabbit hole, but, you know, setting up a newsletter on Campaign Monitor or MailChimp is relatively straightforward, but getting the… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:02 Benedict Evans And for MailChimp, the answer is, no, you go out and get your own. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:16 Benedict Evans The interesting thing about that is that MailChimp takes stuff down. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:51 Benedict Evans As opposed to Mailchimp or Tiny Letter or Campaign Monitor, setting aside the fact that it's free. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:04 Benedict Evans Or you're going to be MailChimp, and you're going to say, that's not my problem, in which case, stop saying that you're democratizing publishing.
Slack, Salesforce and the future of work
- ▶ 24:50 Toni Cowan-Brown And yes, we'd be replacing WordPress and MailChimp. 2 times in the scene
Amazon and eCommerce
- ▶ 15:21 Benedict Evans Um, and now of course the tools to do that have become massively democratized and that's what Shopify is and Instagram and Skype and, you know, MailChimp and all of these kinds of tools mean, you know, stuff that would have cost you tens…