Mailchimp CEO's Hostile Introduction

Nathan Barry shares a story about meeting Ben Chestnut, the CEO of Mailchimp, at a conference.

"I was at a conference where Ben Chestnut was speaking. I emailed him asking if we could meet, being upfront that we were competitors trying to take business from them. He agreed to meet in his hotel lobby before his flight.

He sat down with me and told me all about how they launched their free plan. During our conversation, the editor-in-chief of Inc Magazine came up - this was at the Inc 5000 event where Mailchimp was company of the year. Ben turns to the editor and goes 'Hey, do you know Nathan? He's trying to kill my company' as he introduced me to the editor-in-chief of Inc Magazine."