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MailChimp的如何Cured Its Growing PainsThe email marketing company's staff was once a disorganized mess. But before fixing that, its co-founder had to fix himself.

ByJason Feifer

This story appears in theJuly 2018issue of雷竞技手机版.Subscribe »

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MailChimp's tiny staff could once fit around a table, so they often did -- gabbing over coffee, and dreaming up new directions for the business. By 2014, though, that team had grown to 300 people. At a company cookout, co-founder and CEO Ben Chestnut looked around and realized he barely knew anyone. So he called ameeting, hoping to reclaim the intimacy of those early days.

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