Ben Chestnut

Ben Chestnut is an American billionaire Internet entrepreneur. He is the CEO and co-founder of MailChimp, an email marketing company.

Chestnut founded what later became Mailchimp with Dan Kurzius in 2001 as a side project to their web design company.

Mailchimp’s email marketing software for small businesses garnered enough customers that in 2007 they committed to it full time.

Wary of giving up control to outside investors, Chestnut and Kurzius bootstrapped growth from profits and took no outside money.

Chestnut and Kurzius each own 50% of Mailchimp, which had $600 million in 2018 revenue.

He is CEO of the Atlanta-based company, which has nearly 1,000 employees and millions of customers.