SendGrid

“There are startups that have blown up in the last 12 months, like Resend instead of SendGrid for email, WorkOS and others where the agent just said to use them.”

“I have built five apps now. None of them get email or scheduling, right? None of them get it right. They all stop sending emails that are supposed to be sent every hour, every day, once a week, they all stop sending them.”

“You go to SendGrid, you go to Postmark, to Mailgun, you sign up for these services, and the first thing you get is a manual verification process that takes two days for you to get approval of your account, right?”

“I believe we did this with Drip because we went from, we had three or four different email providers that we were using that were APIs that, that sent emails. And it would take us a matter of weeks to switch and we were sending hundreds of millions of emails a…”

“So the reason I have this as number six is that if bubble 10 X their pricing or had a big outage, you could rebuild that. And if you're hosted on AWS or using SendGrid or using WordPress, you can rebuild it. The risks are there, but they're lower than if you l…”

“We are built on top of SendGrid, which is like an email engine to actually send and distribute the emails. And to get the attention that we needed from them, we needed like an annual contract with some sort of like volume lock-in, which is like, I don't know, …”

“When you get into messaging, the hard part is not so much actually sending an email. Like that's pretty straightforward. There's like, you could actually, you could do that yourself if you want. The really difficult part is getting it delivered.”

“There are two that we used at SendGrid and GitLab that I think were essential. One was a one pager called an opportunity canvas, which asked PMs to outline sort of the concept they wanted to build. And the other one, it's like a two to six pager. I think Kevin…”

“PMs always have two tracks going. At least that's how we ran it in Sengri and GitLab. There's a validation track where you're doing your homework on the things you want to pump into engineering, and then you have a build track.”

“At SendGrid, we had a recommended split, and granted, this is when we were sort of a hundred million-ish, of 6030, 10, 60 on net new, 30 on iterative improvements, 10 on tech debt.”

“The truth is that growth just destroys cash. Like, no matter how much cash we made, I've, I was spending it on AWS bills. I was spending it with SendGrid.”

“To date, David has backed hundreds of startups, including the likes of, check this out, Uber, SendGrid, Twilio, ClassPass, PillPack, and many more. In total, these investments have gone on to create more than eighty billion dollars in value”

“Well, we took a look at it, and we saw that they'd, they'd gone to a combination of SparkPost, SendGrid, Mailgun, and to a lesser extent Amazon S, S-Tree, or SES. And for the most part, it looks like SparkPost, one, they edged out SendGrid by just a little bit…”

“Companies like Stripe and Adyen will certainly be multi-billion dollar successors.”

“They send over a billion emails a day. They've been profitable this year and they're an IPO candidate in in 2017.”

“Bigger thing also, I would say even, but just being about bullish on Sparrow, is that would be bullish on Boulder, Colorado. I mean, I was there a few weeks ago working with Techstars, working with Galvanize, working with Boomtown three accelerator programs ou…”