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(July 2021) Ben Chestnut: From Side Business to $12 Billion – The Accidental Triumph of Mailchimp
- ▶ 0:08 Guy Raz It's my interview with Ben Chestnut, the co-founder of MailChimp. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:29 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how Ben Chestnut and his partners used a monkey logo and guerrilla marketing to build MailChimp, a B to B brand that grew into a big business by focusing on small business. 12 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:27 Ben Chestnut To ultimately build MailChimp, where, you know, I had to build an app that convinced people to buy things from me.
- ▶ 15:32 Guy Raz How did you meet Dan Curzius, who would eventually become your co-founder at MailChimp, but how did you, he was also at Cox, right?
- ▶ 23:04 Ben Chestnut Uh, luckily we didn't delete it, and yeah, we used that to build, to build MailChimp. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:58 Ben Chestnut Um, so we had to improvise and call it MailChimp instead. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:20 Ben Chestnut We renamed it by then. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:57 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, how Ben and his team finally went all in on MailChimp, and how its accidental twin, MailChimp, became one of the best mistakes that ever happened to them. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:47 Guy Raz In those early days, from what I understand, you guys, um, 2007, you're full on and into MailChimp, and there was a huge 800 pound gorilla in this space called Constant Contact.
- ▶ 39:13 Ben Chestnut You know, we, we had this idea, you know, blogs were big at the time, and we had this idea to separate Mailchimp into two parts, into two products. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:17 Ben Chestnut So that was the appeal of Mailchimp. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:38 Guy Raz Did you, um, you guys had kind of toiled away for six plus years on the web design service, then pivot to MailChimp and, you know, you start to see steady growth, but was it pretty soon, like by 2010 where you were, you were like, okay,…
- ▶ 50:11 Ben Chestnut So that when their customers visit, I want them to see Mailchimp's logo.
- ▶ 53:59 Ben Chestnut It wasn't like a big commercial success for us to sponsor it, but I, I do remember, um, that the producer said that we ran an ad during their podcast, and the ad was really quirky and weird, and it basically said something like, if you… 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:29 Ben Chestnut Unbeknownst to us, rumors are swirling that we're shutting down, something is really awful, or maybe, maybe somebody's buying Mailchimp or something. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:49 Guy Raz So, it's 2014, and Ben is still reeling from a very difficult and awkward all staff meeting at Mailchimp, which basically has him questioning everything about the company. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:08:04 Ben Chestnut We wanted them to become good managers and progress through leadership at Mailchimp. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:08:09 Ben Chestnut So we started to think about like, what would it be like if we had like a Mailchimp school or a Mailchimp Academy?
- ▶ 1:10:48 Ben Chestnut We also started MailChimp Presents where we produce video content for people too, because YouTube is like, it's now like the world's number two search engine after Google.
- ▶ 1:11:17 Guy Raz You are not going to be surprised about what I'm going to ask you next because it was covered by a few publications, but there was an article that came out earlier this year about what was described as a, an exodus of mainly women and… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14:34 Guy Raz When you, um, the company today easily, if you wanted to, you could easily sell it and probably been offered lots of money for it. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:18:04 Guy Raz That's Ben Chestnut, co-founder of MailChimp. 3 times in the scene
Specialized Bicycle Components: Mike Sinyard
- ▶ 38:04 Lindsey Steinberg Our favorite episode was definitely the one with Ben Chestnut, where he talks about his experience growing up in Augusta and forming MailChimp.
Cultivating a creative community with Tina Roth-Eisenberg of CreativeMornings
- ▶ 17:18 Tina Roth-Eisenberg Well, I would say the big, the big moment was when I received, uh, an email from Ben Chestnut, the co-founder of MailChimp. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:55 Tina Roth-Eisenberg Um, well, thanks to the support like companies like MailChimp, who, by the way, is insane. 2 times in the scene
Mailchimp: Ben Chestnut
- ▶ 0:52 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how Ben Chestnut and his partners used a monkey logo and guerrilla marketing to build MailChimp, a B to B brand that grew into a big business by focusing on small business. 11 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:57 Ben Chestnut That was a great skill for me to carry forward to, to ultimately build MailChimp, where, you know, I had to build an app that convinced people to buy things from me. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:37 Ben Chestnut Uh, luckily we didn't delete it, and yeah, we used that to build, to build MailChimp. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:40 Guy Raz What were people doing with MailChimp? 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:03 Guy Raz So it's early 2007, and Ben and his partners finally decide to mothball their web design business and focus full time on MailChimp. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:46 Ben Chestnut You know, we, we had this idea, you know, blogs were big at the time, and we had this idea to separate Mailchimp into two parts, into two products. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:11 Guy Raz Did you, um, you guys had kind of toiled away for six plus years on the web design service, then pivot to MailChimp, and 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:45 Ben Chestnut And it basically said something like, if you need email marketing or hats for cats and dogs, uh, go to Mailchimp. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:02 Ben Chestnut Unbeknownst to us, rumors are swirling that we're shutting down, something is really awful, or maybe, maybe somebody's buying MailChimp or something. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:24 Guy Raz So it's 2014, and Ben is still reeling from a very difficult and awkward all staff meeting at MailChimp, which basically has him questioning everything about the company. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:22 Ben Chestnut We also started MailChimp Presents where we produce video content for people too, because YouTube is like, it's now like the world's number two search engine after Google.
- ▶ 1:10:51 Guy Raz Tell me about last year, because I can't imagine that it was as I'm sure it was, there were lots of challenges, but MailChimp seems like the kind of company that can easily move to a distributed model. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:16:30 Guy Raz When you, um, the company today easily, if you wanted to, you could easily sell it and probably have been offered lots of money for it. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:20:30 Guy Raz That's Ben Chestnut, co-founder and CEO of MailChimp. 2 times in the scene
How I Built Resilience: Alex Lieberman and Austin Rief of Morning Brew
- ▶ 23:09 Alex Lieberman I mean, you can assume that our costs in the early days were basically MailChimp, our website, the hosting of our website, maybe some referral rewards like stickers that cost, you know, 25 cents a sticker.