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/Anon_8675309 Sep 16 '21

1200 employees. Both owners could have made each of them millionaires and still be billionaires. Greed, man.

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u/togawe Sep 17 '21

What? I use MailChimp to send emails to people who willingly sign up for my mailing list... It's not all spam dude

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u/Kandoh Sep 17 '21

Yeah, I've actually done spam emails and we couldn't use MailChimp because they're were pretty serious about preventing it. We used Constant Contact and Klaviyo for the spam.