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MailChimp’s 8 Years Old!

August 20th, 2009 | by Ben

freddybirthdaySo I got an email this morning wishing MailChimp a happy birthday.

Then it hit me.

Today is MailChimp’s birthday! (thanks for the reminder, JR). Little Freddie von Chimpenheimer IV is now 8 years old. And if my math is correct, that makes him about 83 in chimpanzee years.

It’s hard for me to believe this, but we launched MailChimp back on August 20th, 2001. The only goal we had back then was to make email marketing less of a hassle. In the old days, you had to hand code all your HTML, tracking links, program your own list management scripts, unsub scripts, etc. You know, stuff a monkey should be doing. You’ve got a business to run. In terms of revenue goals, we just hoped that some day MailChimp would be able to pay for our lunches. “Naaah, that’ll never happen” we thought.

Things have changed over the last 8 years, not just for MailChimp, but for our entire industry. Also, our goals have since grown slightly more ambitious. :-)

Now, MailChimp’s running strong with over 80,000 users all over the globe. On behalf of the entire MailChimp team, I’d like to thank our customers for your business all these years!

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Posted in MailChimp News, Monkeys! | 18 Comments »

18 Comments

    • Tiago says:

      Thanks for great service and congrats for the 8th birthday. Keep it up.

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    • Jan says:

      Happy Birthday!

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    • Simon says:

      Mailchimp – One of my most favorite applications and savy tools online, congrats with what you have achieved in these years.

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    • Ludy says:

      Happy Birthday! Congratulations for the great work!

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    • Zachary Baker says:

      Happy Birthday Freddie!! You all provide and invaluable service, and you manage to have fun along the way. Thank you!!

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    • Will Castillo says:

      Feliz Cumpleaños!

      I would liek to thanks everyone involved in MC for such a great service. As a happy MC API user from Venezuela, my best wishes to you all.

      By the way… It would be nice if you can share with us what are your more ambitious goals these days :) Beside a bigger banana cake, of course.

      Congrats!

      All best,
      Will

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    • Verious says:

      Happy Belated Birthday!

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    • Tiago says:

      We thank YOU for your business. Happy Birthday.

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    • Tiago says:

      Check it out the Mailchimp description at McAfee Secure page (from the “tested” link at the bottom):

      “MailChimp provides do-it-yourself email marketing services worldwide to over 10,000 small businesses”

      10k? You sure have grown. :)

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    • will guy says:

      mail chimp has made emailing customers fun! keep up the good work and happy birthday!

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    • Tim Aynes says:

      Thanks for your service! Go eat a birthday banana…
      Our online ministry – missionsmandate.org – just celebrated it’s 1 year anniversary. It’s a great feeling to pass this milestones.

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    • jacky says:

      Happy Birthday

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    • Alberto says:

      Time for a bannana break! Happy Birthday from El Salvador!

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    • bill says:

      thanks for the greatness from austin, tx!

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    • Kirsten says:

      We are turning 8 too! We signed our lease Sept 11th, 2001 not knowing what chaos the world was entering. Here we are 8 years later and really enjoy the service you provide. I have recommended you to many other specialty toy shops. You have a playful spirit and an effecient product.

      Congrats on your birthday!

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    • Niclas - TimeCenter says:

      Late congratulations from Sweden!
      Some days ago I noticed Freddie’s new smile on the start page, the same one as in this birthday picture!

      I seem to be the only one noticing it so I had to analyze it in our blog… :)

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      • Ben says:

        We noticed that you noticed, and thought it was very funny. Thanks for posting that! The truth is, our original mascot design is extremely cool, and we love it. But the file was never built so that we could adjust his arms or face, to do other things. So our DesignLab had to rebuild an “adjustable” version with swivel-action arms and everything. While they were at it, they made versions of him smiling, smoking a pipe, and other random things. You know, just in case. It’s been fun to see how our audience catches even the slightest variation of our mascot. You guys have good eyes!

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