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Vol. II — No. 184Remarkable People · Exceptional CompaniesToday's Edition

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Benchmark Email Spent 21 Years Adding More. Then It Bet the Company on Less.
Saas · Ai · Enterprise

Benchmark Email Spent 21 Years Adding More. Then It Bet the Company on Less.

The 2004 bootstrapped SaaS survivor merged, acquired and chased the all-in-one dream. Its 2025 rebuild makes a sharper wager: busy marketers may pay more for software that proudly does less.

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How an $18,000 Closeout Bet Built a $400 Million Kitchen Business - and Why Its Smartest Move Was a Factory Saying No
Consumer · Hardware · Ecommerce

How an $18,000 Closeout Bet Built a $400 Million Kitchen Business - and Why Its Smartest Move Was a Factory Saying No

Chefman won shelf space with affordable appliances. Then it used the cash to build CHEF iQ - a connected kitchen system whose most important ingredient may be the factory that refused to make it.

kitchen-appliances · smart-kitchenRead →