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How a Bootstrapped Startup Grew to a $12 Billion Exit This is Mailchimp, a 2001 startup by Ben, Mark, and Dan, which was started as a side hustle to support small businesses with email marketing. It was a basic paid tool that let you send emails to

Mailchimp grew from a humble side project to a $12 billion acquisition without venture capital by aligning success with customers’ growth. Their freemium model let small businesses start free, naturally upgrading as they scaled. Every email became an

Startup Survival Story - 2 Mailchimp: The Power of Pivoting _________________________________ Mailchimp began as a side project offering email marketing services to small businesses. For years, the founders, Ben Chestnut and Dan Kurzius, struggled

MailChimp’s Bootstrapping Journey: From Garage to $12B 🚀 The Problem:In 2001, Ben Chestnut and Dan Kurzius started MailChimp as a side project. No VC funding, just a small web design agency struggling to meet client demands for email newsletters.

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Pitching to a VC: "I have a billion-dollar idea... just need a billion dollars."

Intuit, a $175 billion company, you know nothing about! So, Intuit was founded in 1983 by Scott Cook and Tom Proulx in California, USA. Cook got the idea for the company after seeing his wife struggle with managing household finances. He realized t

When you see the growth of Perplexity : • January 2024 -> $520 Million • April 2024 -> $1 Billion • June 2024 -> $3 Billion • December 2024 -> $9 Billion • This growth is carried out by searching with the help of

What happens on the internet in a single day: Emails sent: 333 billion Texts sent: 24 billion Google searches: 8.5 billion Facebook posts: 2.5 billion Tinder swipes: 1.6 billion Hours streamed: 1.4 billion X posts: 500 million Zoom meeting hou