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Why I broke up with Mailchimp

"Mailchimp had a friendly, nice-monkey vibe since it was founded in 2001. No VC equity, the two founders bootstrapped it all the way. Accounting software outfit Intuit paid US$12 billion for Mailchimp in 2021. Big number. Someone has to pay for it. You know how this goes: it’s you..." Ian Whitworth shares his tale.