Twilio, every mention
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- ▶ 21:46 Vijen Patel It would go to us, and we used like a, at the time it was called Twilio.
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Twilio: Jeff Lawson
- ▶ 1:57 Guy Raz Twilio, a multi-billion dollar communications business that you are probably using every day without even knowing it. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:03 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, how Jeff discovers that selling skateboards is not his true passion in life, and how that discovery eventually leads him to Twilio.
- ▶ 34:51 Guy Raz Uh, but at some point, obviously, you had this idea to start a new company, which would become Twilio. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:28 Jeff Lawson And that was where Twilio started.
- ▶ 40:44 Jeff Lawson Can we do that with Twilio?
- ▶ 43:28 Guy Raz So you could build the prototype, um, with Twilio, and, and initially the way you would make money, or how you pitch it to investors was, we get a cut, a, a penny or two pennies for every out, automated outgoing call, and then every…
- ▶ 46:10 Guy Raz How Twilio begins to get customers, and how Jeff uses a proven guerrilla marketing technique to generate buzz.
- ▶ 46:44 Guy Raz So it's 2008, and Jeff and his co-founders have gotten some pretty good early feedback on Twilio.
- ▶ 51:00 Jeff Lawson And so in the early days of Twilio, uh, we sat about, we said one of our values is, is be frugal. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:55 Guy Raz I think a big turning point for you was, was, or maybe not, I don't know, but, but Uber started to use Twilio, and I guess this is probably still early in Uber's history, so maybe it wasn't a significant, um, amount of revenue at the time. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:15 Guy Raz Twilio was, was powering that in, in, in the background, right? 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:49 Guy Raz You're, you, you've got to disclose, and, and your books are open, and, um, and, you know, I think you debuted at 15 dollars a share, so if you bought Twilio stock when, when you went public, you would still have made a lot of money today… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:27 Guy Raz Twilio obviously had to lay off about 11% of its workforce in September of 2022. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:12:08 Guy Raz Knowledge and those experiences and apply them to what you would eventually build in Twilio, which is a, you know, multi-billion dollar giant now.
- ▶ 1:13:29 Guy Raz That's Jeff Lawson, founder and CEO of Twilio. 3 times in the scene