How Ben Chestnut Bootstrapped Mailchimp to a $12 Billion Exit

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Rob Walling
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How Ben Chestnut Bootstrapped Mailchimp to a $12 Billion Exit

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after bootstrapping for 21 years Ben Chestnut sold MailChimp to into it for an astonishing $12 billion making MailChimp by far the most successful bootstrapped SAS ever since 2012 I've emailed Ben approximately once a year to see if I could get him to speak at microcom and it finally happened Ben joined me on the microcom stage in Atlanta for a wid... Read More

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