For anyone that might be unaware, Intuit is rather shady! They’ve spent a lot of money trying to keep taxes complicated:
I’ve been a fan of mailchimp since early on… I’d often point to them as an example of a company that did fun/weird things rather than chasing purely traditional marketing, and for a long time they required double opt-in for email marketing (which means someone can’t just dump your email address into a form and spam you, you’d need to confirm it via email first).
They’ve since abandoned the double opt-in requirement and have buttoned up their appearance… so a sale seemed inevitable, but Intuit is still disappointing! I hope mailchimp’s employees will at least get a nice bonus out of the deal.
