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View LibraryHe Was Tired of Formatting Other People's Newsletters. So He Built the Tool. Kept the Monkey.
How Ben Chestnut built Mailchimp as a side project to automate his most annoying freelance work, bootstrapped it for 20 years without answering to a single investor, and sold it to Intuit for $12 billion — the largest acquisition of a bootstrapped company in history.
He Built It in a Weekend. Raised $8 Million. Lost Almost Everything. Then Built It Again.
How Sahil Lavingia built Gumroad in 48 hours, chased the wrong game for five years, published his failure to the world before he had recovered, and rebuilt a platform that has now paid creators over $1 billion.
How a 24-Year-Old Broadcast His Entire Life on the Internet From a Camera Strapped to His Head and Built the Company That Became Twitch
How Justin Kan strapped a camera to his head, live-streamed his entire life for 24 hours a day, and accidentally built Justin.tv — the platform that became Twitch, sold to Amazon in 2014 for $970 million.
She Went to Find a Textbook. There Was None. So She Wrote It.
How Lynda Weinman turned an empty bookshelf, a free website, and $25 a month into a $1.5 billion company — without a pitch deck, a growth hack, or a single dollar of outside capital for 18 years.