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Free IssueIssue No. 10Apr 16, 2026

He 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.

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Premium IssueIssue No. 09Apr 9, 2026

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.

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Free Issue006Apr 2, 2026

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.

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Premium Issue005Mar 26, 2026

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.

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