Mailchimp, every mention
49 scenes, the whole family · ← back to Mailchimp
tap a year for its mentions
every year anyone Jason Lemkin 85Ben Chestnut 42Seema Amble 2Amanda Malko 2Marchelle Mooney 1Kyle Porter 1Joshua Browder 1David Barrett 1Andrew Bialecki 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Mailchimp comes up
The Agents #12 - Our AI Agent Rewrote Our App Without Telling Us
- ▶ 42:13 Jason Lemkin I was just writing up for Saster, you know, Mailchimp, Mailchimp's revenue fell almost 20% last year at Intuit. 3 times in the scene
Software Stocks Have Massively Crashed. Here's What Founders Need to Know.
- ▶ 16:04 Jason Lemkin Guys, listen, if the markets have fallen out of love with us, we'll just, we'll just do the MailChimp.
The 10-Point Checklist For When You Sell Your Company With Founder Collective's Dave Frankel
- ▶ 19:04 Jason Lemkin I interviewed Ben Chestnut at Sastrano right after they sold, uh, MailChimp to twelve billion to Intuit.
10 Ways Sales is Different in Vertical SaaS with Mangomint's VP of Sales
- ▶ 33:54 Marchelle Mooney You can get rid of MailChimp.
How to Think About Product-Led Growth, Bootstrapping vs VC, and Early Exits with Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 34:08 Jason Lemkin And two years ago, two years ago, Ben Chestnut from MailChimp came here, bootstrapped to a twelve billion dollar exit.
5 Things That Are Working and 5 Things That Aren’t in B2B SaaS AI with Ironclad's CEO and a16z
- ▶ 6:01 Seema Amble So anything from someone like MailChimp using AI to auto-generate email copy, Zoom doing summarization notes, Dropbox having a search feature, these are all things that you guys are probably using, but it takes away that extra time that…
- ▶ 24:48 Seema Amble Like MailChimp does this.
Top 10 Go To Market Mistakes Founders Make Again … and Again with SaaStr’s Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 42:17 Jason Lemkin I got someone from MailChimp and I'm doing email marketing. 2 times in the scene
Ben Chestnut: The Top 10 Learnings Scaling Mailchimp to $1B ARR
- ▶ 0:00 Jason Lemkin Let's welcome Ben Chestnut, CEO and founder of, of MailChimp. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:34 Jason Lemkin So MailChimp is, I don't, I don't know whether you've announced your numbers, you don't have to comment, but around a billion ARR on either side, it's a lot of ARRs, whatever it is, it's very large, but it's a category nominally with a lot… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:02 Jason Lemkin And so when you're, when you're the CEO and you're, I would imagine at this point, you've got a few dashboards at Mailchimp. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:01 Jason Lemkin This isn't the one, but MailChimp's always been bootstrapped, which we can dig into, but that, that especially means every dollar is scrutinized a little bit in the beginning at a force of necessity, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:57 Ben Chestnut That's DNA of MailChimp. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:05 Jason Lemkin And there, what, which phase, I, I wanted to do a little bit more in the early stage for a while at a time, but which, tell me about the phases of MailChimp, because today, 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:28 Jason Lemkin First of all, Bell Chimple is 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:57 Jason Lemkin Then you talked about a MailChimp took advantage of the 2009 downturn, right? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:30 Jason Lemkin But it's Mailchimp's interesting because you take a product that back in the day was relatively static. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:59 Ben Chestnut Even at MailChimp, we pivoted a little bit ourselves. 8 times in the scene
Klaviyo's CEO Founder on the Journey to an $800,000,000 ARR Leader in Marketing
- ▶ 4:24 Andrew Bialecki And all of our customers were like, Hey, so would you ever think about integrating with like exact target or, you know, contact or MailChimp?
Is AI the Only Thing in SaaS that Anyone Cares About Anymore? AMA Part 1 w/ SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 8:34 Jason Lemkin It's gonna eclipse MailChimp, right?
The Top 10 Worst Pieces of SaaS Advice with SaaStr Founder Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 7:47 Jason Lemkin Um, and in fact, we are seeing more and more companies add freemium additions at lastly and adding free HubSpot, adding free MailChimp, adding free as
Being a Rebel to Build a Movement: Non-Traditional Approaches to Scale | DoNotPay CEO Joshua Browder
- ▶ 11:09 Joshua Browder Most valuable lesson as an entrepreneur, which is, um, platform companies are more valuable than, uh, point solutions, and, um, the MailChimp CEO was speaking earlier about unbundling and, and bundling, and, um, he says that we're very…
SaaStr APAC AMA with Jason Lemkin, SaaStr CEO
- ▶ 22:58 Jason Lemkin And, and, and, and, and, and, and, um, I remember I interviewed Ben Chestnut at Sastranials here from MailChimp, which was bootstrapped.
- ▶ 27:56 Jason Lemkin I think Ben Chestnut said the same thing from Mailchimp when I asked, and, and so a lot of folks either were forced to bootstrap, and they often, and the ones that were successful often started in categories where there was time.
The Secrets to Scaling with HubSpot's Founders Dharmesh Shah and Brian Halligan and SaaStr's CEO
- ▶ 16:00 Jason Lemkin Occasionally there's quirky other ones, marketing or design, like Mailchimp or Figma we chat about, but did you argue?
- ▶ 19:11 Jason Lemkin It seems like there's a, there's not, I don't know how, I don't know if one person solo shops that are running on MailChimp are running HubSpot, right?
Everything that Breaks on the Way to $1B ARR with @mailchimp Co-Founder Ben Chestnut
- ▶ 0:12 Ben Chestnut Only the Mailchimp brand can get away with the kind of content that we're publishing. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:25 Jason Lemkin So I am, um, so pleased to have Ben here, um, I did not know until we did our prep call that back in the day I was the ICP for MailChimp, we'll talk about it, but we all have our hero apps, and I remember back in the day when, first I was… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:19 Ben Chestnut Uh, he had run a business, got acquired, and he knew the passion required to manage small business companies, and he knew the pain that they suffered from, and he knew what drove us at Mailchimp, and we just got along really well, but they… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:35 Jason Lemkin And then, and so one last thing on this is just, at MailChimp's scale, right, we, we, we passed a billion, although you, you know, essentially it was right after the acquisition, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:44 Ben Chestnut And, uh, you know, maybe they would hire VPs of sales or VPs of marketing, and they would start to use MailChimp. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:02 Ben Chestnut You know, and I've struggled over the years, many years, to try to, to build that sort of MailChimp Pro, that second level MailChimp. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:14 Jason Lemkin But you didn't change MailChimp. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:22 Ben Chestnut Uh, and we saw that rite of passage, and we also saw that if we stayed true to ourselves and kept improving, after a few more years, they realized that darn Beamer's hard to maintain, and then they come right back to us, and they kind of…
- ▶ 19:27 Ben Chestnut But Mailchimp kept growing and growing, and we never really needed money, uh, when they would offer it, and I would try to figure out what would I spend it on, and we just made plenty, uh, and we, we ultimately never, never needed any kind… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:36 Ben Chestnut I'm just thankful that we had this culture at Mailchimp to constantly not, we didn't even use the word innovate as far as I can remember. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:54 Ben Chestnut He was the one, we, we, we hired him to turn Mailchimp into two products, uh, to take our old code, divide it into two, make one, one of them the list building for your blog, and the other one, if you wanted to send emails, that's when…
- ▶ 29:42 Jason Lemkin Well, I mean, MailChimp is so interesting for freemium. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:21 Ben Chestnut Finally leaving your company to start their own, and I remember reading that many years ago and thinking, wow, there's so many talented people at Mailchimp, and they won't leave, because it was such a great place. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:57 unnamed speaker And I hadn't thought about this till I heard you talk about future Mailchimp, but is there a way we could use future Mailchimp to draw visibility to the whole environment, social governance, and impact on the climate of the apps that we… 2 times in the scene
Live from SaaStr Annual 2022: AMA with SaaStr's CEO
- ▶ 1:55 Jason Lemkin The two, the two big interviews I did were with Ben Chestnut from MailChimp yesterday, and with Dharmesh and Brian from HubSpot, and it was interesting that they broke rules, and I don't mean in an edgy way, I don't mean, what I mean is… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:54 Jason Lemkin The different point is bootstrapping is harder, and I asked Ben Chestnut from MailChimp if you saw that session, and we, I, I didn't, but we asked Michael Cannon Brooks from Atlassian, and everyone says the same thing.
VC State of the Market with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin and Cowboy Ventures Founder & MP Aileen Lee
- ▶ 12:45 Jason Lemkin Sometimes there is that, or we were working on it and sometimes you can kind of pick your day one sometimes.
The Answers To Scaling, Hiring, And Everything Else: An AMA With Saastr Founder & Ceo Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 53:28 Jason Lemkin And, and, and Joe had come from a, a fifth tier MailChimp competitor, but everyone came out of meeting him.
The State of Software Buying From SMB to Enterprise with G2's CMO, Amanda Malko
- ▶ 0:13 Amanda Malko Uh, I joined G-II about six months ago, uh, from Mailchimp.
- ▶ 18:09 Amanda Malko And then MailChimp actually created a partner community, and then went a step further and said, what if our partners actually do our marketing, some of our education and training for our customers?
The Highs and Lows of Fundraising from Founders That Have Raised $1B w/ Calendly, Coda, LaunchDarkly
- ▶ 30:21 David Barrett Like, like the, like the MailChimp guy's like, don't worry.
The Twists and Turns Along the Way to Building a Unicorn with Salesloft's CEO Kyle Porter
- ▶ 17:00 Kyle Porter And that's important because if you use the MailChimp or the, you know, part on Eloqua Marketo, that's a transactional email server that's picked up transactionally.
Going Long: The 20-year Journey of Being a CEO + Founder with BlackLine | SaaStr Software Community
- ▶ 33:43 Jason Lemkin Mailchimp not only bootstrapped all the way to Mailchimp will bootstrap to infinity. 2 times in the scene