Youu stood in front of them and said and said, what? Things are great. We're awesome. Who knows? That was right? And my answer, you know, it's a start at founders. We don't need no stinking strategy. I remember looking out at this audience, and i remember half of it being kind of old guard, you know, sort of like the typical start up pirates,. The other half of people were really concerned, like, what? Why are you hiding things from us? Ah. You know what irem ber.
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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