Profil Financier
Ben Chestnut occupe actuellement le rang #893 du classement mondial StarFortune (secteur technologie). Fortune nette estimée : $4.9 B (-$480 sur 24h).
Ben Chestnut founded what later became Mailchimp with Dan Kurzius in 2001 as a side project to their web design company.
Mailchimp's email marketing software for small businesses garnered enough customers that in 2007 they committed to it full time.
Wary of giving up control to outside investors, Chestnut and Kurzius bootstrapped growth from profits and took no outside money.
In 2021, Intuit announced it would acquire Mailchimp in a $12 billion cash and stock acquisition.
At the time of announcement, Chestnut and Kurzius each owned 50% of the Atlanta-based company, which had $800 million in 2020 revenue.
Chestnut learned about small business from his mom, who ran a hair salon from the family's kitchen in Georgia.
He studied industrial design at Georgia Tech, taught himself how to build websites, and worked at Cox Interactive Media.