Ben Chestnut(United States · ♂)— A Georgia Tech-trained designer running a web agency (Rocket Science Group), he built Mailchimp as a side project in 2001 that grew into a bootstrapped email-marketing giant.
Dan Kurzius(United States · ♂)— A self-taught web professional who co-founded the Rocket Science Group with Chestnut and helped turn its Mailchimp side product into the main business.