benchestnut

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   by benchestnut 13y ago

   MailChimp founder here. Here's a little back story to Alter Ego, since it does tend to confuse people. There was a time, not long ago, when email providers were under attack and suffering from some major breaches ( http://www.cauce.org/2011
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   by benchestnut 16y ago

   Ben from MailChimp here. We invested a lot in abuse prevention, well before introducing any freemium plans. The problem ESPs like us face isn't so much the "evil" spam, but the "fuzzy" spam (from clueless marketers). Our approach to dealing
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   by benchestnut 16y ago

   No. Unless you count a couple of small lines-of-credit with our local bank, which we took as backup in case some initiatives failed (hiring an API programmer, expanding the office, etc).