Rank #870
Dan Kurzius
Net worth $4.9B
Email marketing · United States
- Born
- Dec 01, 1971
- Age
- 54
- Source
- Email marketing
- Residence
- Atlanta, Georgia
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 2
- Education
- High School Graduate, High School
Net worth over time
Biography
- Dan 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.
- In September 2021, Intuit announced it would acquire Mailchimp in a $12 billion cash and stock acquisition.
- At the time of announcement, Chestnut and Kurzius each owned 50% of the Atlanta-based company, which had $800 million in 2020 revenue.
- Kurzius was a part-time DJ and competitive skateboarder before getting into web design.
- The two cofounders met when Chestnut hired Kurzius to work at Cox Interactive Media's dot-com era MP3 music service.
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