Mail Chimp Founders Make Billionaires List After 17 Years
MailChimp's founders didn't set out to build the world's leading email marketing company. When Ben Chestnut and Dan Kurzius launched MailChimp back in 2001, they were just trying to help the customers of their web design business. Chestnut and Kurzius's customers wanted an easier way to send out emails marketing their product or business. Chestnut dug up some old code he'd written for an earlier product. That discarded code became the starting point for the MailChimp email marketing service.
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