Dan Kurzius

Kurzius founded what later became Mailchimp with Ben Chestnut 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, Kurzius and Chestnut bootstrapped growth from profits and took no outside money.Chestnut and Kurzius each own 50% of Mailchimp, which has expected 2018 revenues of $600 million and is profitable.He is Chief Customer Officer of the Atlanta-based company, which has nearly 1,000 employees and millions of customers.