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Ben Chestnut And Dan Kurzius Started Mailchimp With No Venture Capital; After 17 Years Of Slog And Perseverance, Mailchimp Has Grown Into A Million-dollar Company
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” — Thomas A. Edison
Patience is hard to hold in a business world that is increasingly defined by quarterly profits and rapid results.
In a time when companies like Twitter and Instagram have become overnight successes, people now tend to believe in virality, which is far from the truth.
This is the story of Mailchimp, which actually took 17 years of arduous work, and finally found success.
The story began when Mailchimp’s founders, Ben Chestnut and Dan Karzius, lost their jobs. They thought of starting their own business to avoid relying solely on a monthly salary.
They founded “The Rocket Science Group,” a CRM company. While running their not-so-successful CRM, Ben and Dan started Mailchimp to assist their clients with sending emails. They created the email marketing service Mailchimp to help their customers.
