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Comment by sschueller | Hacker News Reader

Save you the click. MailChimp was a web agencie's internal project. It wasn't abandoned, it was just not the focus of their business. The pivoted from an agency to full time launching mailchip.

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Thanks for mentioning this. Wish I'd read your comment before the article.

This article seems like a for-pay puff piece when it was originally published in December 2020, but the posting here and now when this company is going through a bit of negative PR is a bit suspect.

https://www.theverge.com/22300931/mailchimp-company-culture-...

Thanks, absolutely ridiculous that the name of the main subject is not in the title. I already knew the story of MailChimp but this could have been about anything...

If I recall correctly, Twitter progressed in a similar way—it started as an internal project and eventually grew into the main offering.

Kinda makes you wonder why that company in particular might want to have a positive story about them in the current news cycle, doesn't it?

No, but I appear to have missed whatever news you're winking and nudging about

For example, this:

https://www.theverge.com/22300931/mailchimp-company-culture-...

(via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26316847)

And, not so much a "wink & nudge" as a reminder to question why any particular company on any particular topic is getting coverage at any particular time. (And an awareness than many on HN care little about the issue.)

(this was published back in dec)

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