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  "markdown": "Co-founder, Mailchimp.\n\nBen Chestnut co-founded Mailchimp, which began as a side project of the Rocket Science Group, the web design agency he ran with Dan Kurzius. Launched in Atlanta in 2001 as an email marketing service for small businesses, Mailchimp never took outside investment and was bought by Intuit in 2021.\n\n## What Ben builds\n\n- [Mailchimp Marketing API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mailchimp-marketing.md), graded C, 57.4/100, in Lifecycle marketing \u0026 customer engagement. Intuit Mailchimp's Marketing API manages audiences, contacts, tags, segments, events, campaigns, automations and reports for a Mailchimp account. It is a REST API at `https://api.mailchimp.com/3.0/` that takes an API key or an OAuth 2 token. Co-founder, Mailchimp, researched 2026-10-28.\n- [Mailchimp Transactional (Mandrill)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mandrill.md), graded C, 58.1/100, in Email delivery APIs. Transactional email service from Intuit Mailchimp, formerly Mandrill. It sends application email and SMS through an HTTP API, SMTP or a hosted MCP server, with templates, inbound routing, webhooks and reporting, as a paid add-on to a Mailchimp plan. Co-founder, Mailchimp, researched 2026-10-28.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Dan Kurzius](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/dan-kurzius/), Co-founder, Mailchimp\n- [Mark Armstrong](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/mark-armstrong/), Co-founder, Mailchimp\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Ben Chestnut?\n\nBen Chestnut co-founded Mailchimp, which began as a side project of the Rocket Science Group, the web design agency he ran with Dan Kurzius. Launched in Atlanta in 2001 as an email marketing service for small businesses, Mailchimp never took outside investment and was bought by Intuit in 2021.\n\n### What does Intuit Mailchimp make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Mailchimp Marketing API and Mailchimp Transactional (Mandrill) from Intuit Mailchimp. Intuit Mailchimp's Marketing API manages audiences, contacts, tags, segments, events, campaigns, automations and reports for a Mailchimp account. It is a REST API at https://api.mailchimp.com/3.0/ that takes an API key or an OAuth 2 token.\n\n### How are Ben's tools graded?\n\nMailchimp Marketing API is graded C, 57.4 out of 100; Mailchimp Transactional (Mandrill) is graded C, 58.1 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://mailchimp.com/\n- https://mailchimp.com/contact/\n- https://mailchimp.com/about/\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mailchimp\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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