Ben Chestnut
Ben Chestnut is an American internet entrepreneur and the co-founder of Mailchimp, an email marketing platform headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. He served as Mailchimp's CEO for over 20 years, leading the company from its founding in 2001 as a side project through its growth as a bootstrapped business to its acquisition by Intuit in 2021 for 12 billion dollars. He stepped down from the CEO role in 2022 and transitioned to a business advisor position within Intuit. He is best known for building Mailchimp into one of the leading email marketing platforms for small businesses without taking outside investment.
“12 billion for a bootstrap company... it took a year for Intuit to do its diligence... there was another deal that fell apart before that... it basically destroyed the company.”
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