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Agents Are Your New Power Users: How Klaviyo CEO Andrew Bialecki Is Remaking a $1.4B Business
- ▶ 37:23 Jason Lemkin And to me, Twilio is another example. 3 times in the scene
Our Agent Negotiated a Vendor Renewal, Became a CFO and a Better SDR .. but has too many guardrails
- ▶ 23:35 Jason Lemkin Unless you're building something that is developer only like a Stripe or Twilio, there's a handful of folks that need a developer account, but 99% of, of the world doesn't.
$4 Trillion in IPOs, $100B in M&A, and Why B2B Spend is Booming
- ▶ 6:10 Jason Lemkin We've seen folks re-accelerate Atlassian, Twilio.
- ▶ 36:06 Jason Lemkin Twilio and Atlassian are just super interesting and, and, and 6 times in the scene
AI + B2B in 2026: Find the Tailwinds or Get Left Behind | Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 27:37 Jason Lemkin They re accelerated even Twilio came back a bunch.
Redpoint Ventures Playbook: How Top VCs Are Really Investing in AI with Jacob Effron
- ▶ 2:04 Jacob Effron We've invested in companies like Snowflake, Stripe, Twilio, Ramp, HashiCorp, and I help lead a lot of our AI investing.
The Secrets Inside Google Cloud’s Growth with Sarah Kennedy, Vice President Google Cloud Marketing
- ▶ 7:44 Jason Lemkin We go back to the old Twilio billboards pre
The Future of AI in B2B SaaS: Insights from Synthesia and Theory Ventures. Hosted by Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 18:15 Tomasz Tunguz Twilio, okay, fine.
How to Hire a Great VP of Sales Today with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 30:43 unnamed speaker If you have an SVP from Salesforce or Mongo or Trilio that doesn't want to sell anymore, you can't make that higher.
Fundraising from VCs and Hiring VPs in 2025: AMA with Jason Lemkin SaaStr CEO
- ▶ 10:57 Jason Lemkin In the old days, people like when Twilio started to scale, everyone that was building software, like they were like, this is the stripe of communications. 3 times in the scene
René Lacerte, CEO Bill + Jason Lemkin: "It's Just Getting Good for SMB SaaS"
- ▶ 26:46 Jason Lemkin And I think what Twilio did, which is I'm guessing is see where the cloud's going.
Klaviyo's CEO Founder on the Journey to an $800,000,000 ARR Leader in Marketing
- ▶ 5:09 Andrew Bialecki I think that was, you know, when, when we, when we started to do that, cause I mean, earlier we were fortunate that we at the time, like SendGrid, you know, now Twilio like existed. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:23 Andrew Bialecki Um, I mean, we looked at companies like Shopify, like Twilio, like Salesforce as examples of companies that had done this really well and understood developers.
2025 State of SaaS: Trends and Predictions with SaaStr CEO and Founder, Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 27:53 Jason Lemkin You have to do better than Snowflake, Twilio, GitLab, you know, this is high bar, but I know it's a job we all signed up for.
5 Lessons from Scaling Six Products to $100M+ with Samsara's Chief Strategy Officer
- ▶ 3:44 Kieran Saker Likewise, if your software isn't efficient, if every thousand dollars you're getting from a customer, you're turning around and spending 500 of those to AWS, to OpenAI, to Twilio, to Stripe, it's going to take you twice as long to recoup…
How to Navigate Strategic Change for Growth with SaaStr CEO and Founder, Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 10:18 Jason Lemkin I did Jeff Lawson, CEO of Twilio, and Peter Gassner of Vivo, who had just gone multi-product.
What SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin Really Thinks About AI, Sales & Lead Gen In 2024
- ▶ 27:39 Jason Lemkin So, the mistake so many founders make is, you know, oh, she worked at Twilio, or, you know, she worked at Mercury, and FinTech, or Drada, or wherever we are looking out on this great thing, or they worked at Expensify, or wherever you…
- ▶ 38:14 Jason Lemkin Salesforce or Twilio or something because they want to buy a rocket ship, right?
The Most Important SaaS Metrics with Monday.com Co-Founders and SaaStr Founder Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 17:29 Jason Lemkin Twilio was valued the same multiple as a pure play software company, even with lower multiples.
Why The Era of Efficient Growth is Now: The State of the Market with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 26:09 Jason Lemkin And anyway, I thought this was a good summary with Twilio. 4 times in the scene
Being a Rebel to Build a Movement: Non-Traditional Approaches to Scale | DoNotPay CEO Joshua Browder
- ▶ 7:23 Joshua Browder And then Twilio, uh, with the Ukraine crisis, uh, they're offering their services.
- ▶ 11:44 Joshua Browder I, um, rented a house in Palo Alto, um, actually the house where Facebook was started, and we, I just, instead of building any more products, um, I just built, started building SaaS integrations with, like, Twilio, uh, Lob API, uh, UiPath,…
SaaStr APAC AMA with Jason Lemkin, SaaStr CEO
- ▶ 43:32 Jason Lemkin You know, the day before lockdown, I saw the president of Atlassian, the week before the CEO of Twilio on the street.
Big Numbers from Small Customers: How DigitalOcean Accelerated at Scale | DigitalOcean SVP, Revenue
- ▶ 0:35 Cliff Bockard Um, I led our sales efforts globally at SendGrid, where we had about 80,000 customers, um, then the go to market integration of SendGrid and the Twilio, the acquisition, um, plus building out their mid-market segment, where we had over… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:52 Cliff Bockard So there's a good chance in your day-to-day life, um, that you are somehow, some way interfacing with DigitalOcean, as it was with SendGrid and Twilio in their past lives as well.
- ▶ 6:14 Cliff Bockard You know, at SendGrid, uh, when we were acquired, we had just released an act two, um, when, when, when Twilio came and bought us. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:51 Cliff Bockard Uh, with SunGrid, Solio, and DigitalOcean.
CRO Confidential: Sales Comp, Quotas & Recruiting with Jason Lemkin and Sam Blond of Founders Fund
- ▶ 3:56 Jason Lemkin A little worse than SaaS, right, with server costs and support, but we, we learned these metrics, the, the CLTV and CACs and that, and then the world changed, and in fintech and payments and, um, and communications like Trilio, these all… 2 times in the scene
Optimizing GTM for PLG with Stage 2 Capital Co-Founder and Managing Director Mark Roberge
- ▶ 26:46 Mark Roberge The most famous software companies in the world, like Snowflake, and Okta, and GitHub, and Twilio, and Drift, who's coming on after this.
Everything that Breaks on the Way to $1B ARR with @mailchimp Co-Founder Ben Chestnut
- ▶ 23:39 Jason Lemkin Yeah, I just, we, we, as we're learning, back in the day, we had Jeff Lawson from Twilio come once, and just after IPO, and he's like,
Live from SaaStr Annual 2022: AMA with SaaStr's CEO
- ▶ 1:06:52 Jason Lemkin No matter how much they talk the talk and tell you what it was like at GitHub or Twilio or what you just, okay, great.
The Answers To Scaling, Hiring, And Everything Else: An AMA With Saastr Founder & Ceo Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 19:11 Jason Lemkin Just to be aware of, it may not be true of your company, I think it's really, really, even though overall buying is, it's growing at insane rates, um, it's gonna be a long time until folks are comfortable with lower quality revenue again,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:21 Jason Lemkin Well, they worked at Twilio.
16 Ways to Level Up in 2022 with SaaStr Founder and CEO Jason Lemkin | SaaStr Software Community
- ▶ 30:10 Jason Lemkin Ok, I'm gonna go hire, I'm gonna go hire a product manager that worked on one pixel at Twilio, or worked on one little thing at some great company.
How Marketing Can Be Your Secret Sauce to Fundraising and Growth | Bandwidth CMO Noreen Allen
- ▶ 1:26 Noreen Allen If you're familiar with Twilio, we're in the same category as Twilio. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:09 Noreen Allen So when, when I first mentioned bandwidth in this talk, I mentioned that we're in the same category as Twilio. 5 times in the scene
From 0 to 400M, 10 Mistakes the CEO of ZoomInfo Made on His Journey to IPO | SaaStr
- ▶ 17:06 Jason Lemkin And then you look at like Jeff Lawson at Twilio.
Hacks for Founders of High-Growth Startups with DigitalOcean CEO Yancey Spruill
- ▶ 0:46 Yancey Spruill And, ah, prior to that, ah, I was at SendGrid, ah, which, ah, we took public, ah, and then sold it to, to Twilio.
Marketing Secrets to Hypergrowth from Building Elastic, Zuora, and Segment
- ▶ 1:42 Katrina Wong To the enterprise as, uh, their selling motion, as their marketing motion, uh, these days, uh, we are so lucky, and we'll talk about this a lot more, uh, truly data-driven marketing, and just really being able to do that in a super robust…
- ▶ 22:00 Katrina Wong I mean, both Twilio and Segment are, you know, heavily driven by community, um, you know, there's a huge investment with developer marketing, but it's not gonna be in-your-face marketing.
Adding Outbound Sales & Marketing to a Product-Led Growth Engine Freshworks, Twilio, 1Password, Coda
- ▶ 0:28 Sarah Varney I'm the CMO at Twilio. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:28 Bibiana Feiga Sarah, so tell us a little bit about Twilio and their model. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:12 Stacy Epstein Twilio's a great example. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:04 Sarah Varney Yeah, I mean, I think that you've got, you have to have kind of an honor code between the two teams to not, like, if you started like Twilio as a product-led growth, um, function and company, and then you're graduating to sales, you want… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:58 Sarah Varney And so, you know, things we've thought about at Twilio, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:35 Stacy Epstein So for example, my last company, ServiceMax, like, you know, you look at Slack, you look at Zoom, um, Twilio, like most companies, most buyers are going to use it in a somewhat similar way.
Ask Me Anything About Customer Success with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin and ChurnZero CEO You Mon Tsang
- ▶ 24:26 Jason Lemkin Twilio has 10.
Scaling a Successful SaaS Sales Team w/ 20VC Founder Harry Stebbings and SaaStr Founder Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 22:13 Jason Lemkin I would ask the Jeff Lawson from Twilio and the Peter Gassner from Viva and I would say, how much time do you spend in sales? 2 times in the scene
The Most Common SaaS Sales Potholes and How to Avoid Them with Mark Roberge, HubSpot's ex-CRO
- ▶ 27:27 Mark Roberge Of Atlassian, Zoom, Snowflake, Okta, Asana, Twila.
The Secrets Behind Creating Scalable Products with Box CEO, Aaron Levie and SaaStr CEO, Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 19:14 Aaron Levie So Twilio obviously exploded because we're all, you know, buying DoorDash all day long. 2 times in the scene
Hyperscaling At Scale with PagerDuty's CEO, Jennifer Tejada | SaaStr Software Community
- ▶ 2:50 Sameer Dholakia We took our little startup from thirty million through an IPO, um, back in 2017, and ultimately, uh, an acquisition by Twilio in 2019. 2 times in the scene
State of the Cloud 2021 with Bessemer Venture Partners | SaaStr Software Community
- ▶ 5:18 Byron Deeter And it's really the cloud basket, and we pulled out six names in particular with Microsoft, Twilio, Shopify, Adobe, um, uh, Amazon, and Shop, and, uh, Salesforce as the six new guard flag carriers,
- ▶ 15:30 Elliott Robinson Twilio, for example, voice, video, and chat, we all kind of know that cloud giant story. 2 times in the scene
Nick Mehta CEO Gainsight + Jason Lemkin CEO SaaStr on "The Latest in Leveling Up Customer Success"
- ▶ 19:58 Nick Mehta Organic growth because your customers use more Twilio being the ultimate example of that, and some of them are like you sell everything up front, a whole bunch of licenses, and maybe there's a little bit of growth.
- ▶ 21:03 Jason Lemkin We don't care where it comes from, and this is the change from, it's not just Twilio, it's FinTech, it's everything.
The State of the Cloud: 2021 with Bessemer Venture Partners | SaaStr Software Community
- ▶ 19:21 Byron Deeter And this is comprised of Microsoft, Twilio, Salesforce, Amazon, Adobe, and Shopify.
- ▶ 24:45 Mary D'Onofrio And interestingly, in 2020, we've seen the top quartile of cloud companies break away from the pack to trade for 30 X as a step function change in how the public cloud markets are valuing the strongest cloud companies, including some that…
- ▶ 29:38 Mary D'Onofrio Um, and we would love to use Shopify and Twilio as some great examples. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:30 Elliott Robinson Um, from kind of a top-down market perspective, we've just seen a massive growth, uh, in the value and success of product-led growth, uh, companies, whether it's Datadog or Twilio, it's really, again, that retooling and focus on your…
- ▶ 48:25 Byron Deeter Uh, Jeff Lawson, our, um, amazing Twilio CEO that we've been able to work with now for 11 years, back to the seed round, uh, recently published, ask your developer.
How To Collaborate, Manage & Work With Developers With Jeff Lawson, CEO Twilio
- ▶ 0:13 Jason Lemkin Jeff has done great things with the Sastra community, going back to joining us just after Twilio IPO, I think at the, he was actually, I think going to come to the, um, but the IPO got in the way and he was kind enough to come back.
- ▶ 8:54 Jason Lemkin It's not a Twilio scale, but it's moving twenty million dollars a year through a specialty bank. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:15 Jeff Lawson Uh, there have been times at Twilio where we have all of our engineers take turns doing support, you know, like two days a year.
- ▶ 17:30 Jeff Lawson And, um, and that is, uh, I think the small team and the, um, focus on customer problems really help you to do that because, you know, early in Twilio, we, we would hire developers who also had offers at like Google or Facebook or, you… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:12 Jeff Lawson I shared, I shared this great story from one of the product leaders at Twilio. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:25 Jason Lemkin Obviously Twilio is at the center of that. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:45 Jason Lemkin I mean, if I, if I'm allowed to use my credit card at BigCo and use Twilio for a dollar or nickel, right?
- ▶ 45:41 Jeff Lawson And so I think agility and flexibility, I think like within Twilio, I suspect 4 times in the scene
Churn is dead. Long live Net Dollar Retention Rate with Dave Kellogg | SaaStr Software Community
- ▶ 41:09 Dave Kellogg And you can see Snowflake, 158, Twilio, 155.
On Launching a Second Product with Dharmesh Shah, CTO / Co-Founder HubSpot
- ▶ 23:18 Jason Lemkin And the flip side, you look at the Twilio's that went broad aggressively.
The Top 10 Questions to Ask Any VP of Sales
- ▶ 1:41 unnamed speaker Um, to see if she really knows it, or if she's just a smooth talker with a great LinkedIn, because that's more common these days, the cloud leaders, the boxes, the data dogs, the LinkedIn, the Twilio's they're all growing faster than ever.
The Current State of Venture Capital and Cloud | SaaStr Software Community
- ▶ 1:24 Jason Lemkin And Procore and a longer list that he's done and Vessemer has done, but he did the OG stuff.
- ▶ 22:20 Byron Deeter I mean, uh, three, uh, in the Bessemer portfolio alone, we had, uh, Twilio, Shopify, and Pinterest were all, you know, seed and series A investments, um, coming out of that O eight crisis.
- ▶ 53:57 Jason Lemkin And when we did the holiday event, you said of your hundred and fifty million allocation in that one best refund, you put half in Twilio.
Webinar: What It Was Like in '08-'09. And We Can Learn for '20.
- ▶ 38:52 Jason Lemkin We learned, I mean, Twilio did pretty good with some variable revenue, right?
State of the Cloud 2019: Europa Edition | SaaStr Software Community
- ▶ 15:18 Alex Ferrara They're doing a little bit more than tripling, ah, so, ah, an example of that company would be, would be a Twilio.
- ▶ 20:27 Alex Ferrara Uh, and so, you know, two examples, or maybe I should say now one example since, uh, uh, Sengrid and Twilio have merged, uh, of, of great, uh, net retention are here.
- ▶ 26:24 Alex Ferrara Um, one of the examples, ah, I like to give again is, is Twilio. 5 times in the scene
Using Product Led Growth as an Indicator for Investment w/OpenView Venture Partner, Ashley Smith
- ▶ 1:17 Ashley Smith Uh, was about number 20 at Twilio. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:16 Ashley Smith Uh, at Twilio, I think my entire job there in my first two years was throwing t-shirts at people because everyone had a Twilio t-shirt, I think, in the developer community in 2010. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:38 Ashley Smith I'm gonna use Twilio here.
State of the Cloud 2019 from Bessemer Venture Partners
- ▶ 16:37 Christina Shen So you're tripling each year, and you're on the same path as a company like Twilio.
- ▶ 20:15 Christina Shen And two great examples of that, or should I say one great example now, ah, would actually be Twilio and SendGrid, which actually closed their merger last week, ah, combining the value of the two companies at fifteen billion dollars. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:39 Christina Shen Uh, Twilio is a great example when they were a series A company of a retention driven score. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:22 Byron Deeter And what this is, is the intersection of several mega trends, uh, as we talk about the API economy and the developer world and companies like, uh, Twilio and AuthZero and SendGrid and Amazon Web Services themselves, these API based…
Successfully Managing The Hyper-Growth Stage
- ▶ 18:09 Julio Avalos And if you think about, you know, Twilio, like, ask your developer.
Bootstrapping vs Fundraising
- ▶ 3:11 Eric Gunderson When Twilio, uh, did their S-one file?
- ▶ 16:05 Eric Gunderson Amazon, or if you're going to use Payments, you might use Stripe, or if you're going to use Notifications, Twilio.
State of the Cloud: 2018 Edition
- ▶ 9:34 Christina Shen Well, we're going to take a simple example of four companies, Twilio, Box, Shopify, SendGrid, all public companies, all happen to be Bessemer companies, partially because we have the data. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:08 Christina Shen And you can see here that, you know, Twilio and SendGrid are the first, uh, two companies on here to go public.
- ▶ 20:47 Byron Deeter And if you think about that Uber app that you open, and what's going on with the payments calls behind the scenes, or the email confirmation, the anonymous voice message that's happening and powered by Twilio, or the text confirmation,… 2 times in the scene
SaaStrPRO AMA with Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 3:08 Jason Lemkin and you come to the Bay Area, everyone worked at Salesforce, and everyone worked at Box, and everyone worked at Dropbox, and Twilio, and, uh, MuleSoft, and you're just, you're just starstruck.
- ▶ 14:40 Jason Lemkin Certainly there are many of these folks, and if you actually go back to the Saster Annual for last year, for 2017 and watch this amazing video with Jeff Lawson from Twilio, you can see I asked him a lot about this.
Twilio: The Inside Story with Jeff Lawson, CEO/Co-Founder
- ▶ 0:12 Jason Lemkin Show of hands for people that do not, have not heard of Twilio. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:38 Jason Lemkin Um, and I, and I got a message that he wouldn't be able to, and this was right around the press was saying Twilio might IPO, um, and I'm 95% certain the reason was this quiet period when you, when you have to go quiet to file an IPO. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:29 Jason Lemkin One high-level thing I'm, I've, I wonder, maybe you can, so Twilio's clearly the, the flagship of next generation developer-centric companies, right? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:03 Jeff Lawson And so, you know, if it's a startup adopting Twilio, like, the developer doesn't ship, they're done, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:07 Jeff Lawson We've got that billboard on the one-on-one. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:50 Jeff Lawson Uh, so for Twilio, for example, we have got our enterprise plan. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:57 Jeff Lawson That sales is important to our company, even though we do talk about the power of that self-service developer-led model, we do believe that sales is a critical part of our growth, um, and a part of, a critical part of our long-term… 2 times in the scene
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