Mailchimp
| Founded | 2001 |
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| Acquisition price (Intuit, 2021) | $12 billion (source) as of 2021 |
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| Founder proceeds | $11.7B split evenly between Chestnut and Kurzius (source) as of 2021 |
How Talmyn verifies these figures.
Mailchimp was an email marketing platform founded in 2001 by Ben Chestnut and Dan Kurzius, grown entirely on reinvested profit without ever raising venture capital. Intuit acquired the company for $12 billion in 2021, one of the largest acquisitions of a bootstrapped software company in history.
