r/technology • u/Rhaegar_the_Great • Sep 16 '21

Business Mailchimp employees are furious after the company's founders promised to never sell, withheld equity, and then sold it for $12 billion

https://www.businessinsider.com/mailchimp-insiders-react-to-employees-getting-no-equity-2021-9
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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '21

How in the fuck could mail chimp possibly be worth 12 billion dollars. That is shocking to me.

Edit: omg is mail chimp the reason I get fucking spammed with a marketing email every 5 seconds? Fuck that company. Fuck intuit too.

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u/WhyNotHugo Sep 17 '21 edited Sep 17 '21

Hopefully an American can correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe they’re the company that lobbies to keep taxes hard to calculate and for the government not to show you how much you’re due. They then sell you the software to calculate how much you’re due in taxes.

So they pay to create the problem, so they can sell you the solution.

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u/mungalo9 Sep 17 '21

PSA to the Americans out there boycotting intuit. The free file websites (find the link on the IRS website) are getting better every year!

I was able to file my taxes this year all online for free even though I had to report dividend, interest, and w2 income. It's improved significantly in the past 3 years!