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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Mailchimp comes up
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.