From unemployed to CEO of a company worth 12 billion. This is the story of the founder of Mailchimp, the queen of email marketing who has depopulated without funding

You know when you never give up and try in every way? Here this is the story of Ben Chestnut. He is the co-founder of Mailchimp. A super company that is now worth 12 billion dollars.

But at first, creating this gold mine that is very useful for entrepreneurs for marketing Ben hadn’t got it right.

Several times he had failed or made the wrong choice and society. He could do as many and say that: “He was unlucky”. He could feel sorry for himself. He certainly suffered but he was able to give the best of himself.

Indeed, his experience teaches us something extremely important. He keeps reading this article and you will understand a principle to make yours.

These days Mailchimp has been sold for a lot of money to Intuit. It is a company specializing in financial software.

Listen to me well; in this operation Ben and his partner Dan Kurzius left $300 million to Mailchimp employees in the form of bonuses. They have become billionaires and are always in charge of them.

I would say endless applause for them. This alone would be enough as a lesson. But I assure you that Ben’s life is also interesting and exciting.

So let’s get started…

GREAT DESIRE TO MAKE THINGS DONE BUT… HERE’S HOW YOU FAIL

Ben Chestnut had studied physics at the University of Georgia. And here too the boy had it all wrong. He didn’t like him.

Later he said that physics had taught him that he was poor at physics.

But he at least he was nice LOL.

So he moved on to another university to do industrial design. In the 90s he managed to graduate.

And here is the series of errors.

Before him he leaves his first job. Which could also be brave and spot on. But he finds a job that wasn’t right for him.

He was addicted to Cox; a media conglomerate with largely televisions and radios of America.

So he went looking for a programmer for the mp3 service he was working on. A friend suggested Dan Kurzius, a DJ who supported himself with a job in the real estate sector.

Kurzius avoided specifying that he was a console expert, not a computer expert, and accepted the offer. Within a few months, the mp3 project was wrecked.

A few years later, Chestnut and Kurzius founded the Rocket science group. It was a website design company that was born on the eve of the dot-com bubble burst.

“They then thought of focusing on air travel, just a few months before the attacks of 11 September 2001.”

A disaster. They did a number of clumsy things that hide an interesting mechanism. Keep reading…

It also happened to me that now I am an almost millionaire Italian entrepreneur who makes foolish choices. So silly. But then I realized that… I’ll tell you later…

For example, Rocket customers were asking for help to reach their customers via email. And Ben and his partner founded their business idea on digital greeting cards.

They did not fail but almost… they went badly, come on.

But Ben’s mom was a hairdresser on her own. She was a bit rudimentary but still she was a kind of small entrepreneur. As well as Den’s father.

And also for this reason they wanted to imitate their parents and did not give up…