
Intuit, the maker of TurboTax and QuickBooks software, agreed to buy privately held email marketing firm Mailchimp for $12 billion in cash and stock, uniting two providers of services for small businesses. The deal is a windfall for Mailchimp founders Ben Chestnut and Dan Kurzius, as the company had no venture funding or outside investors.
Read more here: https://fortune.com/2021/09/13/intuit-to-acquire-mailchimp-in-12-billion-deal/