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As Sean Connery once said, "What can you do with eight billion that you can't do with five?" Maybe they could have gotten some great employees by giving out mo
by unityByFreedom 5y ago
As Sean Connery once said, "What can you do with eight billion that you can't do with five?"
Maybe they could have gotten some great employees by giving out more equity. Or maybe they tried and couldn't find them so they sold.
- sbierwagen 5y agoWhile it's nice to hire great employees, Mailchimp provides an API to send email. It's not like they're trying to solve cold fusion. Actually, wait, how many employees does Mailchimp even have? Let's check the press release... >Founded in 2001 and based in Atlanta with offices in Brooklyn, Oakland, Vancouver, London, and Santa Monica, Mailchimp has 1,200+ employees Sending email must be much harder than I thought.
- onion2k 5y agoMailchimp isn't an API to send emails. It's a WYSIWYG email marketing newsletter creator. If you've ever made an email newsletter that looks nice you'll understand how that is very valuable to a lot of companies. Add in all the usual ops, customer support, business to business client management for bigger accounts, marketing, and so on and its not hard to see how it can need quite a lot of people.
- hobofan 5y agoMailchimp isn't _only_ an API to send emails. They do have an transactional email product (formerly called Mandrill).