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As we race
toward Disrupt 2020
, we’re keeping the Extra Crunch Live train rolling
with a big entry next week as Twilio CEO and co-founder Jeff Lawson
joins us for a chat.
Lawson
is well-known in the tech industry for helping institutionalize API
-delivered digital services, a business model variant that has become increasingly popular in recent years
. Twilio has become a giant in and of itself, worth more than $37 billion today after going public in 2016.
As always, we’ll take some questions from the audience, so bring your best material.
Considering
Twilio,
it’s position in the mind of API-focused startups everywhere is notable. You tend to hear API-powered startups mention Twilio and Stripe as the two companies that they are mimicking, albeit usually with a different focus: *“We’re building the Twilio
for X.”*
The power of
API-driven startups
with usage-based pricing and nearly SaaS-like gross margins is something private investors have certainly noticed and are betting on.
But there’s more to
Twilio
and Lawson than just that one topic, so we’ll also spend time riffing on when is the right time for a private company to go public, how his life has changed since the IPO, and what advice he might have for the super-late-stage startups who can’t seem to get out of the wings and onto the public markets. And, why, odd duck amongst most of the tech-famous, he doesn’t appear to make many angel investments.
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