Miker Kemp is the founder and CEO of Malchimp, a social media company. He says he's always been looking for that silver bullet to run his business. Kemp: "I think it comes from constantly striving and looking for thatSilver Bullet" For confidential support call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 or visit http://www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org/. In the U.S., contact the National Suicide Prevention Helpline on 1-800- 273-TALK (8255). If you're in need of help with an Samaritans issue, go to www.samaritans.org.
In the late 1990s, Ben Chestnut was a struggling young designer interning at an appliance company, when somebody suggested that he try designing for the internet instead. A few years later, Ben and two co-founders launched a web design agency, only to discover that the service they'd included almost as an afterthought—email marketing—was taking off among their small-business clients. The founders named that service Mailchimp and pivoted to it full-time in 2007, choosing a winking monkey as their mascot, and stumbling onto the Freemium model before it became mainstream. But their most impeccable timing came in 2014, when they decided to sponsor a new podcast called
Serial, a move that catapulted the winking monkey into popular culture. Over the years, despite management jitters and a public reckoning over office culture, Mailchimp has remained profitable and self-funded, with revenue of $800 million in 2020.
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