Ben Chestnut and Dan Kurzius frequently get asked why they refused to take venture capital for their email marketing company, MailChimp. The answer became obvious this week.
On Monday, the tax software company Intuit announced it would acquire MailChimp for $12bn in cash and stock, an extraordinary outcome for a start-up that had never taken a dime from investors.
The sale effectively turned the founders into multibillionaires overnight. Because they never sold any of the company to venture capitalists — or granted stock options to employees — their stakes in the company came out to roughly $5bn each.
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