Chestnut: Mailchimp focuses solely on monthly revenue and its growth rate
Ben Chestnut · The case for bootstrapping (with Mailchimp's Ben Chestnut) · Nov 30, 2021 · at 40:11
Mailchimp co-founder Ben Chestnut discusses his metrics and analytics practices on Masters of Scale.
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“I think to this day, I still keep it very simple myself. I think I obviously have a CFO who cares about it. He has big fancy reports, but I really say, you know, how much money do we make this month? Is it growing at what rate? And that's all I really care about. I keep it pretty simple.”
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