Gunderson: Mapbox is the default location platform like Stripe for payments
Eric Gunderson · Bootstrapping vs Fundraising · Aug 28, 2018 · at 15:58
Eric Gunderson, CEO of Mapbox, discusses developer infrastructure and how Mapbox positions itself alongside core developer APIs in a fireside chat with J.P. Morgan's Noah Wintroub.
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“When a developer goes out and is gonna build something, they're gonna go get a cloud provider, like, Amazon, or if you're going to use Payments, you might use Stripe, or if you're going to use Notifications, Twilio. But if you're going to use Locations, you're going to pick us.”
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