Ben Chestnut

Mailchimp engineer-founder; build-in-public essays

Ben Chestnut co-founded Mailchimp in 2001 alongside Dan Kurzius, growing it from a side project into one of the world's largest email-marketing platforms before its 2021 acquisition by Intuit. The company was famously self-funded throughout its history, making Chestnut a prominent voice on bootstrapping and founder-led growth. He has shared operational and philosophical lessons through candid essays on building product-led businesses.