Start a Company - The Definition of Hustle

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Ben got a tip that the company was in trouble and preparing to close down. So we began to hustle i had a month's heads up about the whole thing, so i had time to kind of plan my life. And i thought, whele, this is our chance to start a company. We went knocking on doors down the hall from our office and we got paying projects. It just got more and more elaborate. I was hand drawing them in three d, and that became pretty onerous. Later we pivoted to candy, and candy's a lot more scaleable. That pivot to candy was short lived. Ben returned to his design routs.

This week, we’re returning to an episode of Masters of Scale featuring Ben Chestnut, the co-founder and CEO of Mailchimp. The email marketing platform was acquired this year by Intuit in a multi-billion-dollar deal that closed this month. Hear how Chestnut used a DIY ethos to grow the company without ever raising a dollar of outside funding. The Mailchimp story is the exception to Reid's rule (always raise more money than you think you need!). The episode explores a range of options for those who don't fit the VC-funding mold. Cameo appearances: LeVar Burton (Star Trek, Reading Rainbow, LeVar Burton Reads), Don MacKinnon (Milq), Karen Cahn (iFundWomen).

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