Ben Chestnut

“A few months later, the music startup that both of them worked at shut down, and Ben and Dan ended up using their severance checks to found Rocket Science Group, which was a web development agency that was Building websites for big tech companies in the early …”

“Rocket Science Group ended up focusing on airlines after big tech companies, and unfortunately, as we all know, in 2001, nine 11 happened, and that further tanked their business because they had shifted from big tech to airlines, and now, obviously, airlines w…”

“Ben Chestnut and Dan Curzius each owned 50% of Mailchimp. In 2008, Mark Armstrong, the other co-founder, was bought out of the business. Three hundred million dollars was given to employees as bonuses for the deal, and two hundred million dollars worth of rest…”

“Ultimately, what happened was Ben Chestnut and Dan Curzius took the code from an e-greeting card idea that they had just built for fun on the side, and they ended up using that to spin up a simple email app.”

“MailChimp was founded in 2001 by Ben Chestnut, Dan Curzius, and Mark Armstrong. I'm going to focus on Ben and Dan's backgrounds as Mark Armstrong is no longer part of the business. He actually was bought out in 2008.”